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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. - Boris Pasternak
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants" - Benjamin Franklin
You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Charles Kettering
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thomas Jefferson. "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "Ideas shape the course of history."
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. - Voltaire
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. - Chuck Palahniuk
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. - Mark Twain
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. - Frederick the Great
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song. - Jean Giraudoux
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T. S. Eliot
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. - Queen Elizabeth II
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. - Leo Tolstoy
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
Alice Cooper
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. - Jean-Paul Sartre
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
If September 11 has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair. - Bono
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. - Oscar Wilde
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. - Ernest Hemingway
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. - Benito Mussolini
“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
― Jeremy Aldana
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West