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Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology. - Joe Slovo

"When people are lame, they love to blame." Robert Kiyosaki

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. - Michael Moore

"Where do bad folks go when they die? / They don't go to heaven where the angels fly / They go to the lake of fire and fry / Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July…" ~ Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. - Sandra Day O'Connor

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
-Steve Jobs

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.- Sappho

"Back beat, the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out"
~ Oasis

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal

"In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call 'happiness,' if we be but able to entertain them." H.P. Lovecraft

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. - Margaret Atwood

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets." -Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." -JFK

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -. T.S. Eliot

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -. Mahatma Gandhi

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." -Bruce Lee

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple."
-Vicente Fox

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi

Government is not show business. - Warren Beatty

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" ~Buddha~

I don't crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey

"We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style." -Tom Stoppard

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. - Andrew Jackson

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allan Poe

There is no sin except stupudity. - Oscar Wilde

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone." -Jesus

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. - Arthur Rimbaud

"Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train." -Charles Barkley

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. - Rosa Parks

"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater." -George Washington Carver

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran
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Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. - Tommy Cooper

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein

In most collectivist cultures, direct confrontation of another person is considered rude and undesirable. - Geert Hofstede

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. - Blaise Pascal

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." -Benjamin Franklin

It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience. - Robert Blake

"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
-Tony Robbins

I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul - that's what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole 'method' for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again. - Ray Park

"Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life."
-Lee Byung-hun

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. - Sigmund Freud

A wise man knows that he dont know anything

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood. -
Lizzie Andrew Borden

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. - George Washington

The trouble begins whenever the "strangeness" is broken though and the deviant universe appears as a possible habitat - From The Social Construction of Reality (Berger & Luckmann)

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
― Albert Einstein

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. - Tiberius

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about. -Haruki Murakami~

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't. - Phil Klay

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great

(one of my favorite quotes of all time)

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." -Alexander the Great

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. - Leo Tolstoy

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -Marie Curie

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel.

"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference." -Stephen Evans

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. - Sophocles

"People - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic." -Michael Keaton

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -Leo Tolstoy

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Teresa

"There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments." -Chris Rock

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. - Truman CapoteFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. - Truman Capote

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." -Lao Tzu

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.” - Quote by the character Rorschach from the film Watchmen

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” - Tyrion Lannister

What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... all things are as they were then, and you were there. - Walter Cronkite

"It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder." -Neil deGrasse Tyson

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. - Polly Toynbee

The law is reason free, from passion-Aristotle

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. - George Michael

'Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I love them does that not place me at their mercy?' - Anton LaVey

I trust no one, not even myself. - Joseph Stalin

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." -JFK

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't- Unknown....

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all. - Christopher Columbus
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you only live once?
wrong!
you live every day
you only die once!
Unknown.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. -Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." -Stephen Hawking

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion. - Burt Lancaster

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent- Eleanor Roosevelt.

love and war is a struggle between principles.
unknown.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. - Joseph Campbell

"The unexamined life is not worth living"
~Socrates~

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - René Descartes

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?" -Rene Descartes

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