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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. - Simone de Beauvoir
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
“Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. - W. Clement Stone
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan
"The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear." - Heinrich Himmler
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwa
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. - Richard Whately
“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. - David Lynch
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. - Aeschylus
``The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' - Franklin D.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you by angels or demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. - Horace Greeley
"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!" ― William Butler Yeats
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. -'Andy Warhol
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde
Today is a gift. Yesterday is the past, and tomorrow is the dream.
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood". —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance is always afraid of change. - Jawaharlal Nehru
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope. – Charles Lindbergh
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Alfred Adler
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski
“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!” ― Hergé
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. - Sidney Sheldon
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”—Mark Twain
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. - Ray Kurzweil
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. – Bertrand Russell
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the determination to face it.” — Unknown
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. - A. A. Milne
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. - Jeremy Bentham
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
"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
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
"I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be"-Bram Stoker.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. - Diogenes
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.- Henry Adams
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.--Lawrence Welk
"The government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan