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Quotes

Quotes. Everybody uses them; they are the best part of tortured graduation speeches and filler in times of awkwardness. The intellectual deficient (me) use them to makes themselves seem clever. Nothing says I am insightful and charming like quoting someone else. Here is a collection of quotes that I personally find interesting and true. You will probably disagree because you are dead inside and smell like sour onions. My Uncle Jasper said that if you want someone to believe something tell them Ben Franklin said it. I do not have an Uncle Jasper, he is my Ben Franklin. I threw in a couple of definitions because it is my site and things get willy-nilly here at times. The sub-page for Writer’s quotes is wonderful with Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain and many other writers that make it look easy. Well enough of my prattle, like my Uncle Jasper always says, “Nephew, quit telling people stupid one liners that you think explain the Universe and blaming me for it. You can be stupid all on your own.” Uncle Jasper is a bit of a drinker.

Albert Einstein

• No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
• If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign
• I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
  • May be apocryphal

Ben Franklin

• If you would not be forgotten
  As soon as you are dead and rotten,
  Either write things worthy reading,
  Or do things worth the writing.
• This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Stephen Hawking

• The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Anais Nin

• We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

G.K. Chesterton

• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
• Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
• You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Groucho Marx

• A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
• Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don’t anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you’re always trying for a topper you aren’t really listening. It ruins communication.
• I cannot say that I do not disagree with you.
• Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
  • May be apocryphal

Random Quotes:

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. — William James
• Crazy people are the loneliest people in the world –Unknown
• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper –Adelle Davis
• Hara hachi bu — Okinawan principle that means to eat only till you are 80% full
• Ikigai — Something important one lives for, a reason for being

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