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Others' thoughts...
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Life... |
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." - Anonymous "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful." “Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back in the same box.” "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." "All of me is beautiful and valuable, even the ugly, stupid, and disgusting parts." "Laugh at your problems; everybody else does." "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult." - Charlotte Whitton "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past." "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over." "If life was a box of chocolates, it'd be pretty empty." "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." |
| Relationships... | "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde "Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high." - Adrienne E. Gusoff "Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." "Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leave me the hell alone. " "Love thine enemies... it really pisses them off". "If you love something, set it free. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" |
| States of Mind... | "Cynicism is the unpleasant way of saying the truth." -Lillian Hellman "Always remember that you are unique, just like everyone else." "The man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all." "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that it is." "I have the power to channel my imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and paranoia." "I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." "The world is round; it has no point." "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world." "Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with." |
| Religion... | "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg "It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and greatest cruelty." "Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." |
| Stupidity and Education... | "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson "Without fools there would be no wisdom." "Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree." "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. " "Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space." "The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. " "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. " "The covers of this book are too far apart. "
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. " |
| War... | "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " - General George Patton (1885-1945) "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." |