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Not a whole lot to put here, really. College student, in the process of becoming a paramedic. Art geek. Bibliophile.
Really just here for the friends. So, to fill this space, I give you quotes!
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
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