Essential Truths
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstacles quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
--Albert Einstein
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.
--Anonymous
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
--Lily Tomlin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
--Anais Nin
To err is human--but it feels divine.
--Mae West
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling
War is like love; it always finds a way.
--Bertolt Brecht
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
--Harlan Ellison
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
--Albert Camus
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
--Franz Schubert
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
--Albert Einstein
The cat and the love you give away always come back to you.
--Anonymous
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
--Kahlil Gibran
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
As I see it, our soldiers do not fight for the image of the flag, they fight for the freedom to burn it.
--Bryan Prusha
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
--Sir Winston Churchill
It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
--Albert Einstein
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
--Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrity. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
--Albert Einstein
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
--Bertrand Russell
Hard work is for people short on talent.
--George Carlin
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