There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land ontheir feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a catand drop it?
Steven Wright
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Harry Mathews
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
Let us cultivate our garden.
Voltaire
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
William Mathews
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer
Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
William Shakespeare
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
Steve Jobs
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Claude Vorilhon
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war.
Benjamin Franklin
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
Christopher Nolan
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Jodi Picoult
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.
Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.
Steve Maraboli
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
Felicity Jones
There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.
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