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I love and treasure individuals as I meet them. I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you’re emotionally detached from it. And I’ve always viewed it from a safe distance.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
While pounding on piano keys does create noise, removing them doesn’t exactly further the creation of music.
Speaker: Benjamin HoffPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One disease: long life. No disease: short life.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. It’s mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time because it doesn’t look very deeply into things to begin with.
Speaker: Benjamin HoffSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise are not learned. The learned are not wise.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Speaker: John von NeumannPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only one.
Speaker: George R.R. MartinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The doing of something is 90% of the joy of it. The doing of it well is that extra 10%.
Speaker: Mike PescaPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “No” to almost everything.
Speaker: Warren BuffettPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.
Speaker: the DudePosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those in power don’t need more power. They need criticism. They need a mirror.
Speaker: Zeev SternhellPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Speaker: Robin WilliamsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Speaker: Michele de MontaignePosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Seven deadly sins: politics without principle; wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; business without morality; science with humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Speaker: E. Stanley JonesPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!