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- The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- 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
- 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
- The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
- You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Child Dianetics
- It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03
- Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762, Book IV, lines 1379-1387
- The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
- Terry Pratchett
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