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- All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), On the Improvement of the Understanding
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), breakfast of champions (page 19)
- I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-31-2006
- It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Caligula
- God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.
- Ted Nugent
- It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?
- John Kerry (1943 - ), 9/19/05 Senator John Kerry's Speech at Brown University http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html
- Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
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