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Unless you remove the weeds,
a good crop will be ruined.
- General Sadao Araki

The sword is our steel Bible!
- General Sadao Araki

"The four building blocks of the universe
are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
Dave Barry

Conquer yourself rather than the world.
- Descartes

You never really lose until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Quotes - Favorites

"Millions saw the apple fall, but
Newton was the one who asked why."
- Bernard Baruch

"The only interesting answers are
those which destroy the questions."
- Susan Sontag

"Countless as the sands of
the sea are human passions."
- Nikolai Gogol

"We all agree that your theory is
crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr

"You cannot step into
the same river twice."
- Heraclitus

"It is not enough to have a good mind;
the main thing is to use it well."
- Rene Descartes

Quotaria

"What is important in life is life,
and not the result of life."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed
only to those who own one."
- AJ Liebling

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it
is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"You're never too old
to become younger."
- Mae West

Fate is not an eagle,
it creeps like a rat.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,
for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotaria

Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden

"Assuming either the Left Wing or the
Right Wing gained control of the country,
it would probably fly around in circles."
- Pat Paulsen

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately
not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
- Robin Williams,
commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Francis Marie Arouet de Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

To be completely honest with oneself is the
very best effort a human being can make.
- Sigmund Freud

For to be possessed of good mental
powers is not sufficient; the principal
matter is to apply them well.
- Rene Descartes