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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
Acting Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres on the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen Insofar as the laws of mathematics are certain, they do not refer to reality; and insofar as they refer to reality, they are not certain.
Albert Einstein Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
Mark Twain Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.
Albert Einstein I always get what I want because I always want what I get.
Tim Bischoff If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
Jack Nicholson A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
Malcolm X The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Simon Newcomb, 1902, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk The aeroplane will never fly.
Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907, four years after Kitty Hawk And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.
Winwood Reade You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck... I have no time for such nonsense.
Napoleon, commenting on Fulton's Steamship I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go.
Captain Cook, on his voyage to the Pacific in Endeavor The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein Taking a new step... is what people fear most.
Dostoyevski In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they may fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."
Robert Wise, Director of Star Trek The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill There are only two types of people on this beach: those who are dead, and those who are about to die.
The Longest Day Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.
Apollo 11 plaque left on Moon If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
George Burns, at age 90 If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
Mark Twain To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
Martin Luther King It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.
Robert Ludlum In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their name, I accept the award.
Mother Teresa, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 I'm not Jacko, I'm Jackson... 'Wacko Jacko' - Where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me, it's not nice.
Michael Jackson What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
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