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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. - Ayn Rand
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny. - Jack Handey
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. - Victor Hugo
If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence Peter
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. - Joseph A. Schumpeter
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. - Ray Bradbury
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. - Adam Smith
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. - Mark twain
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. - Napolean Bonaparte
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. - Nikolai Gogol
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness - Alexis de Tocqueville
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position. - Theodore Roosevelt
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. – Oprah Winfrey
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers
It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest. - Lindsay Wagner
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. -Leon Trotsky
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. - Nikos Kazantzakis
I d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. - Fead Allen
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. - Jack Handey
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. - Ice T
One general law, leading to the advancement of all beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. – Charles Darwin
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? – George Carlin