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tiny.ag/gu6tloek · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/bnnutdd7 · submitted 1997
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/0adqbc8f · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/nvfl7j9k · 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/2cctxyhg · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/toiqhdlg · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · 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/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f7dpm5bc · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure