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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. -Bugs Bunny.
Topic: Life
Author: Bugs Bunny
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
Topic: Society
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
Topic: Satire
Author: Juvenal
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Author: Oscar Wilde
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Topic: Style
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Topic: Creativity
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Topic: Admiration
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Topic: History
His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed. She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust, And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed; Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.
Topic: Blushes
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Author: H L Mencken
Music tells no truths.
Topic: Music
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Topic: Sports
Author: Jim Murray