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- A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
- It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
- Terry Pratchett
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), Defence of Hedonism
- People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.
- Somerset Maugham
- There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, May 2, 2006
- There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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