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tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/04lm8ot1 · submitted 1997
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/qycsaode · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance