I am going to collect some of my favorite posts, and put some of my own up here.


Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
Unknown
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Minna Thomas Antrim
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940), Living My Life, 1931
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry (1947 - )

Ever say something and later wish you wrote it down. Maybe if I write down a couple hundred one or two will be worth remembering.

"I despise being told what I have to do. Should somone say: 'pick up those gold coins out of that chocolate room' and I will be a miserable boy..."
Matthew Simpson 5-14-09

"Funny, In as much sheep and goats differ by manerisms and dress, close your eyes and the bleating sounds quite similar."
Matthew Simpson 5-16-09