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201 The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. Voltaire 2 5 months 2 weeks ago
202 Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2 5 months 2 weeks ago
203 Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire 1 5 months 2 weeks ago
204 The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. Voltaire 1 5 months 2 weeks ago
205 What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Voltaire 3 5 months 2 weeks ago
206 Illusion is the first of the pleasures. Voltaire 1 5 months 2 weeks ago
207 I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me. Voltaire 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
208 If you wish to converse with me, define your terms. Voltaire 5 5 months 2 weeks ago
209 Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation. Charles Lindbergh 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
210 Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Thomas Haliburton 3 5 months 2 weeks ago
211 Answers satisfy the mind, mysteries capture the heart. David Gate 1 5 months 2 weeks ago
212 Questions last -- answers multiply and rot. Anthony Judge 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
213 No doubt? No dialogue! Anthony Judge 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
214 Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll understand. (Chinese proverb) 1 5 months 2 weeks ago
215 If money is the root of all evil, why do churches beg for it? (unknown) 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
216 The Ten Commandments consist in observing human behaviour and then inserting a "not". W. H. Auden 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
217 If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. Albert Einstein 5 5 months 2 weeks ago
218 Power is sex for the old. Alain De Botton 2010-05-10 4 5 months 2 weeks ago
219 Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu. Murray Gell-Mann 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
220 Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud 2 5 months 2 weeks ago
221 Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. George Bernard Shaw 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
222 Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
223 Over 50 guests, you can be sure most people will be bitching about the hosts. Few of us have so many loyal friends. Alain De Botton 2010-11-03 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
224 Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler 0 5 months 2 weeks ago
225 The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. Chris Hedges 1 5 months 2 weeks ago

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