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- Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay
- The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
- Tom Hanks (1956 - )
- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
- The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)
- He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
- Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
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