• In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
  • Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
  • The path of least resistance is what makes rivers and politicians crooked.
  • The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
  • 'Where's your sense of adventure?' 'At home in bed where every good sense of adventure should be at 7:30 AM' [overheard in calculus class]
  • Do you know what your problem is? ... You think you know everything, but you don't know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, if you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem, everything else is inconvenience. LIFE IS INCONVENIENCE. LIFE IS LUMPY... Learn to seperate the inconvenience from the real problems. You will live longer and will not annoy people like me so much. [Sygman Woolman]
  • (on a lecturer's door): The probability of finding me in this office is inversely proportional to the magnitude of your urgency.
  • Bad spellers of the world Untie!
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. [Albert Einstein]
  • You cannot argue with someone who denies the first principles.
  • It is better to be than not to be.
  • If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him [James Baldwin]
  • Every 10 seconds, somewhere on this earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped...
  • To die will be an awfully big adventure [Sir JM Barrie: Peter Pan]
  • Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. [Frank Buchman: Remaking the World]
  • The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth. [Goethe]
  • once again using their Bene-Gesserit-trained Voice
  • Happiness is not a destination, but a manner of traveling
  • The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. [François-Reré Chateaubriand: Le Génie du Christianisme]
  • Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can acheive!
  • A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion [Francis Bacon: Essays XVI - Of Atheism]
  • All punishment is mischief: All punishment in itself is evil [Jeremy Bentham: Principles of Morals and Legislation]
  • I lost my teddy bear, can I sleep with you instead?
  • If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him. [Voltaire: Épîtres]
  • What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul [Bible: Matthew 16:26]
  • Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look within your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly [Richard Bach: Janathan Livingstone Seagull]
  • The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. [Kenneth Kaunda: Observer 1965]
  • Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better [Emil Coué: On suggestion and its application]
  • By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible. [Italian Proverb]
  • Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasent as it may be, man must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. [Enrico Fermi]

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