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tiny.ag/ucas5skv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1249 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (468 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · ★★☆☆ Fair (479 ratings) · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/slwohzjt · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's kinda fun to do the impossible.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
tiny.ag/f0cqgbjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (325 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (1119 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/9bumiall · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.