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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
    --Confucius 

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
    --Elvis Costello 

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
    --Adolf Hitler 

"The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure."
    --Anonymous 

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
    --Honore de Balzac 

I would like to know
What I was fencing in
And what I was fencing out.
    --Robert Frost 

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other.
    --George Orwell 

A long face is not a moral disinfectant.
    --C. S. Lewis 

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
    --Edgar Allan Poe 

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
    --Pliny the Elder 

A family budget is a process of checks and balances; the checks wipe out the balances.
    --Arthur Langer 

"This sentence no verb."
    --Anonymous 

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
    --Anonymous 

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
    --Gotama Buddha 

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
    --Tupper 

"Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them."
    --Anonymous 

It doesn't matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.
    --Joseph Stalin 

Brooke's Law: "Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition."
    --Anonymous 

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
    --Samuel Johnson 

The creation we behold is the real and ever-existing Word of God, in which we cannot be deceived. It proclaims His power, it demonstrates His wisdom, it manifests His goodness and benificence.
    --Thomas Paine 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
    --John Wayne 

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love.
    --Friedrich Nietzsche 

I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.
    --Judge Harold T. Stone 

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    --Theodore Roosevelt 

Well begun is half done.
    --Aristotle