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- Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
- Whitney Young Jr.
- Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
- Proverbs 12:15
- The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
- Ingrid Bengis
- I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
- Emerson
- If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
- Keith Richards
- Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
- Wilbur N. Nesbit
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