Congregated here are quotes found through an extensive research process outlined as follows. Throughout any regular day, while browsing the internet for whatever reason, one may stumble upon a good quote and say "wow, that's profound." Those I find worthwhile or funny are posted here.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
I don't know what all the controversy is about, quite frankly. I've met Eminem, I met him backstage, and he's really gay.
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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh.. is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh.. and watch TV. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Most people will tell you that if you don't play, you can't win. Conversely, it should be noted that if you don't play, you also can't lose.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
Even though you've been raised as a human being, you're not one of them. They can be a great people, Kal-El. They wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all - their capacity for good - I have sent them you, my only son.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
My girlfriend always laughs during sex --no matter what she's reading.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
Because TV is moving into being delivered over the Internet -- and some of the big phone companies are building up the infrastructure for that -- you're going to have that experience all together.
Listen up maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Again and again, the impossible decision is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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