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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. - Winston Churchill

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. - David Gerrold (from his book ‘The Man Who Folded Himself’)

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. -Horace Mann

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." –Nan Porter (I wish some people would take this to heart... lol)

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. - Sun Tzu

A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice. -Niccolo Machiavelli

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. - Oscar Wilde

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? - John Steinbeck (from his novel "East of Eden")

Here I have to disagree vigorously, such questions are only asked as long as one has not yet gotten rid of the dust.

And counter this:

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. -Benjamin Spock

"One cat just leads to another." –Ernest Hemingway

I've always been interested in the outsider. - Charles de Lint

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. - Laurell K. Hamilton (from her novel "Mistral's Kiss, Merry Gentry #5)"

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. -Joseph Addison

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. - F. Scott Fitzgerald (from his novel "The Great Gatsby")

I know I don't know. -Seneca

It had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong. -Morden Solus

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Unknown

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. - Samuel Butler

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin

I dipped my pen in gall and it composed a foolish, bitter letter, for which I beg a thousand pardons. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, 1670

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryo tube to this... human. And he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours it's gonna burst through your ribcage, and you're gonna die. Any questions? - quote from Ripley/ Sigourney Weavers character in 👽 Alien Resurrection

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. - Winston Churchill

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson