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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907



Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin



The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ~Eng's Principle



What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb



To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ~Aldous Huxley



My body is a bulletin board, transmitting my condition. ~Terri Guillemets



A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley



A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. ~Harold Hardy Godfrey, A Mathematician's Apology, 1941



We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff



A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz



Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ~Abraham Lincoln



Your heart knows all, pay it more attention. ~Sina G., @just_sina_



The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~Cesare Pavese



Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon Logic is logic. That's all I say. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The One-Hoss Shay



No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw



The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~John Ruskin



We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914



In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker. ~Author Unknown



It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West



If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. ~Elmer Rice