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He who throws mud loses ground
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don’t swallow it.
- Hank Ketcham
We need not fear those who do evil in the name of evil, but Heaven protect us from those who do evil in the name of good.
- Arthur C. Adams
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space.
- Gloria Steinem
An average is just an abstraction; I’ve never met a family with exactly 2.5 children
- Gien
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana
Unconditional love dissolves the illusion of separation; anger reinforces it
- Gien
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car
- Jack Handey
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
- Unknown
“Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
- Unknown
“Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- Unknown
“The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
- Unknown
“The best mind-altering drug is truth.
- Unknown
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
“ The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
- Lao Tzu
“ The best things in life are not things.
- Unknown
“ Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Unknown
“ Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
- Unknown
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion — a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget — almost matching that of the rest of the world combined — is higher in real terms than at any time since World War II and is slated to go even higher .
- Noam Chomsky