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tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · ★★☆☆ Fair (533 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (433 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · ★★☆☆ Fair (3686 ratings) · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/9bumiall · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/qycsaode · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/ndewfsya · ★★☆☆ Fair (980 ratings) · submitted 1997
The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/da1k6tun · ★★☆☆ Fair (723 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Stephen
All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/nvfl7j9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (522 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (408 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.