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1 A good runner leaves no track. Lao Tzu 3 1 week 9 hours ago
2 God seems to be just another unconfirmed extraterrestrial being. Tomáš J. Fülöpp 2010-02-14 43 1 week 23 hours ago
3 Miracle is an euphemism for something we do not understand! Tomáš J. Fülöpp 13 1 month 1 week ago
4 Transparency is a foolish ideal. Life becomes intolerable without a capacity for secrets. Alain De Botton 2010-12-22 3 1 month 2 weeks ago
5 The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Francis Bacon 36 2 months 1 day ago
6 The two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 10 2 months 4 days ago
7 Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus 3 2 months 2 weeks ago
8 I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson 5 2 months 4 weeks ago
9 We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins 2006 5 3 months 3 weeks ago
10 A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Arthur C. Clarke 4 3 months 4 weeks ago
11 For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more clearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization... Robert Louis Stevenson 7 4 months 1 day ago
12 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire 4 4 months 6 days ago
13 There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn. Saint Augustine 15 4 months 6 days ago
14 To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. Cardinal Bellarmine 1615 7 5 months 2 days ago
15 Sometimes, ya gotta break some rules, to put things straight. The Cider House Rules (movie) 1 5 months 2 days ago
16 In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. Everything in the world must have a design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition, it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. John Steinbeck 16 5 months 2 days ago
17 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle 5 5 months 2 days ago
18 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci 4 5 months 1 week ago
19 Krása je ako polarizované svetlo - vidno ju len z určitého uhla. Tomáš J. Fülöpp 2007-04-20 6 5 months 1 week ago
20 Kým je tvoj kôň silný, je čas cestovať a poznávať svet. (Mongolské príslovie) 2 5 months 1 week ago
21 Cestujúci blázon je lepší než sediaci mudrc. (Mongolské príslovie) 1 5 months 1 week ago
22 Smích bez příčiny znamená, že jste buď idiot, nebo zlaťoučké děvčátko. Miroslav Horníček 7 5 months 1 week ago
23 Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří. Jan Werich 20 5 months 1 week ago
24 Nikdy nie je nič stratené, pokiaľ človek žije. Erich Maria Remarque 1 5 months 1 week ago
25 Dokonalosť sa nedosahuje vtedy, keď nemožno nič pridať, ale vtedy, keď nemožno nič odobrať. Albert Einstein 0 5 months 1 week ago

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