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Today's quote

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
    --George Orwell

Today's aphorists quote

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
    --Publilius Syrus

Today's Jazz quote

When youre creating your own shit, man, even the sky aint the limit.
    --Miles Davis

Today's funny quote

What's another word for "thesaurus"?
    --Steven Wright

Today's philosophers quote

We have art that we do not die of the truth.
    --Friedrich Nietzsche

Today's witty quote

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
    --Ambrose Bierce

Random quotes for Saturday, January 28, 2012

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People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
    --John Kenneth Galbraith 

Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism.
    --Noam Chomsky 

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    --Mark Twain 

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
    --Mark Twain 

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
    --Lily Tomlin 

But as one can never distinguish empirically between a symbol of the self and a God-image, the two ideas, however much we try to differentiate them, always appear blended together, so that the self appears synonymous with the inner Christ... and Christ with God... just as the atman appears as the individualized self and at the same time as the animating principle of the cosmos, and Tao as a condition of mind and at the same time as the correct behaviour of cosmic events.
    --Carl Gustav Jung 

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.
    --Friedrich Nietzsche 

When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four.
    --Samuel Johnson 

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
    --Isaac Asimov 

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
    --Ambrose Bierce