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Francis Bacon	A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Thomas Paine	Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Willem de Kooning	The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone	Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Marquis de Vauvenargues	The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Thales	Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who havenothing else possess hope still.

Alfred North Whitehead	There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Bernard Baruch	Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Milton Berle	If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Gustave Flaubert	The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to thelevel of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Walter Lippmann	Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

John Cage	I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

George Bernard Shaw	Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is timeenough.

Paul Dirac	In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Tom Stoppard	Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Barbara Tober	Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Rebecca West	Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Friedrich Nietzsche	A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--asattempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Bertrand Russell	The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Herbert Hoover	About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Aristotle	It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Henry David Thoreau	How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Charles F. Kettering	An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Albert Einstein	Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Arthur Schopenhauer	Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Michael Corleone	Never hate your enemies... it will cloud your thinking

Woody Allen	Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Henry A. Kissinger	Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Will Smith	Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Unknown	There's not enough money in the world to make you happy if your job doesn't suit you.

C. Archie Danielson	Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Phyllis Diller	Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire	When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.