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tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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/bnnutdd7 · submitted 1997
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/raffprlg · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/rnxbf2ho · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · 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/tvfsj7gx · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death