Favourite Quotes - Page 4

• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Law, Research, Programming

  Godel, Escher, Bach ch. 5 (1979)

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• I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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• I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

  Georges Duhamel

  God, Ideas, World

  Le d‚sert de BiŠvres (1937) in Chronique des Pasquier (1948) vol. 5, p. 249

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Perspective, Perception

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• If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Phones, Rings

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2015

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.109, Booklassic

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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Firsts, Masters

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

  Alan Kay

  Research, Labs, Enough

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

  Norman Mailer

  Knowing, World, Wave

  "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Acceptance, Rejection

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• Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

  Bill Watterson

  Want, Careful

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• Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

  Marilyn Manson

  Change, Time, Media

  "47 years of Marilyn Manson: Has the society finally understood him?". www.radioandmusic.com. January 5, 2016.

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

  Ezra Pound

  Business, Men, Two

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Serenity, Accurate

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Science, Technology

  'Contingencies of Reinforcement' (1969) ch. 9

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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