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The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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