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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Bertrand Russell






We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Henry Lewes






Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

the Dalai Lama






None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Sigmund Freud






I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Richard Branson






Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.






In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.






If you go by the book then you have no book of your own to write.






If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Groucho Marx






Invincibility depends on one's self; The enemy's vulnerability on him.

Sun Tzu






Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you do not know it. This is knowledge.

Confucius






Only a dead fish goes with the flow.

Ethan Evans






Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach






Wise living requires moderation in all things -- including moderation.

Robert A. Wilson






There is no greater burden than great potential.

Charles M. Schulz






Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson






In a minority of one the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Ghandi






There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Brad Pitt
12 Monkeys






Time is the great legaliser, even in the field of morals.

H. L. Mencken






There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley






Not every poem's good because it's ancient,
Nor mayst thou blame it just because it's new,
Fair critics test, and prove, and so pass judgment;
Fools praise or blame as they hear others do.

anonymous Buddhist poem






When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Bertrand Russell






Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell






The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J Boorstin






We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton






The sun does not shine to bring us its necessary light and warmth without also bringing to light some new burden for our overtroubled hearts to bear; and everything in the universe shares the same and inevitable consequences.

Joseph Lewis






The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke






Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide






A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand






Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley






No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn






War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.

Karl von Clausewitz






There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Ulysses S. Grant






War is based on deception.

Sun Tzu






He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Sun Tzu






Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Socrates
The Republic






The secret of acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.






Power is not revealed by striking hard or striking often, but by striking true.

Honore' De Balzac






I've never understood why people believe that they're protecting themselves by denying knowledge. Not knowing that your hair is on fire isn't going to keep it from burning your scalp.






Life is a grindstone, whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.






Living a life of great stability removes the unpredictability that makes life worth living.

Daniel Farina






Better to die on one's feet, than live on one's knees.

Albert Camus
The Rebel






Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

Alisher Navoi






Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them? It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau






No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Jacques Cousteau






To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken
Prejudices






Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes






Nothing matters, but everything counts.






For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley






To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings








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