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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Thomas Jefferson
Law and Politics, Vice and Virtue
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Benjamin Franklin
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Unknown
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno)
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The nice thing about egoists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harp
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucious
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
dying words to his housekeeper
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
1984
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Nicollo Machiavelli
The Prince
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking.
Arthur C. Clarke
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
We had no use for the policy of the Gospels, "if someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek." We had shown that anyone who slapped us on our cheek would get his head kicked off.
Nikita Khrushchev
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
There is a homely addage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt
I have found it impossible to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
King Edward VIII
abdicating the throne to marry an American woman
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.
Benito Mussolini
If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
on his development of the atom bomb
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner (Warner Bros.)
on talking movies
If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill
Political languange ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Nikitia Khrushchev
I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.
Muhammed Ali
on escaping the Vietnam War draft
If I ever want to have an affair with a married man again, especially if he's president, please shoot me.
Monica Lewinsky
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
General John Sedgwick
last words in the Civil War
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is.
Albert Einstein
The difference between what the most and least learned people know is inexpressably trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
A person who won't think has no advantage over one who can't think.
Paul Lotus
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so.
Bernard Russell
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has inteded us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
Voltaire
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to use while we're making other plans.
John Lennon
When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elaine Boosler
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Tom Hamilton
...Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
OBSESSED is just a word the LAZY use to describe the DEDICATED.
Russell Warren
2000 BC: Here, eat this root
1000 AD: That root is heathen; Here, say this prayer
1850 AD: That prayer is superstition; Here, drink this potion
1940 AD: That potion is snake oil; Here, swallow this pill
1985 AD: That pill is ineffective; Here, take this antibiotic
2000 AD: That antibiotic is artificial; Here, eat this root
Unknown
This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it, study it, tweak it, listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
Lance Armstrong
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Unknown
That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Unknown
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in combat.
Marine Corps saying
Good is not enough when better is possible.
Unknown
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Unknown
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.
Mark Twain
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto Von Bismarck
If you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.
Diana Murphy (Demi Moore)
Indecent Proposal
Things that people in love do to each other, they remember. And if they stay together it's not because they forget, it's because they forgive.
David Murphy (Woody Harrelson)
Indecent Proposal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson
"Not many people admit they're wrong."
"I'm wrong all the time. It's how I get to right."
Nick Stokes (George Eads) & Gil Grissom (William Peterson)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigators
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
You don't like your job? You don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Homer Simpson
The Simpsons
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans ... unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
Youth is wasted on the young.
Joseph Biden
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
We are here to drink beer. We are here to laugh at the odds. We are here to live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
The important thing is this: to be able to sacrifice at any moment what we are for what we could become.
Chinese Proverb
No man is a complete mystery, except to himself
Marcel Proust
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Carl Spackler (Bill Murray)
Caddyshack
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.
Alfred E. Neuman
Morality ... is the wisdom that prevents sacrificing long-term happiness for short-term happiness.
Gerald M. Weinberg
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albrig
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
Fight Club
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as the tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those that differ from us in opinion.
Elbert Hubbard
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in rats.
Unknown
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
We should not mourn that men are dead, we should thank God that such men existed.
General George Patton
90% of it I spent on whiskey, women and gambling ... the other 10% I wasted.
Tug McGraw
when asked what he did with the money he earned playing baseball
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammed Ali
"Look at me, I'm a grad student. I'm 30 years old and I made $600 last year."
"Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They've just made a terrible life choice."
Bart (Nancy Cartwright) & Marge (Julie Kavner) Simpson
The Simpsons
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Stephen Wright
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Pastor Martin Niemoller
1945
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders
Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies
Friedrich Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Hanlon's razor
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee Trevino
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
V (Hugo Weaving)
V for Vendetta
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Ronald Reagan
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