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Things other people have said, to balance out the number of things I say:

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to
have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899, American orator and lawyer

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't
do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually
flowing in.
- Heraclitus, ca. 500 BC

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find
themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer, American social philosopher, 1902-1983

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their
simplification.
- Martin Fischer

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
- George W. Bush, August 5, 2004

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, and above all, love of the truth.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
- Thomas Szasz

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
- Kristen Stendahl

I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
- Pietro Aretino

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
- Anonymous

To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
- Eric Hoffer

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- Alan Watts

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
- R.E. Shay

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
- Gene Roddenberry

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either
case the idea is quite staggering.
- Arthur C. Clarke

In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
- Tom Waits

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