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- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
- In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III
- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
- Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
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