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tiny.ag/06lybgnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/xgpm1arf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1071 ratings) · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/8dgit6e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1554 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/9qotdgih · ★★☆☆ Fair (684 ratings) · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
tiny.ag/czhkruer · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1999
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/mydapq7x · ★★☆☆ Fair (605 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (383 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (470 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.