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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
I hate to advocate alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The American Crisis (1776–1783), The Crisis No. I
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jongborn 1942
I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000Peanuts
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Meaning of It All (1999), lecture II: “The Uncertainty of Values”
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
I think fame is a really complicated thing. It can be a great challenge to handle the difficult parts of it and strengthen your character so you don’t get affected in a negative way by it. And I’m scared and excited and hesitant and anxious. I’m conflicted about it, truly.
Tobey Maguireborn 1975
Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.
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Why are people’s “deepest desires” always so shallow?
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People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
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If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman1906–1998