"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done his or her homework."
―Thomas Edison

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Life is short, live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
― Albert Einstein

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Groucho Marx

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

"Opium is the religion of the masses."
-John Lennon

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"There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair."
― Albert Einstein

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

"Fear always springs from ignorance."
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

"Well Buddy.. just pull that vehicle behind me—I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going!"

PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment at the Battle of the Bulge.