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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question even the existence of a god, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To recognize untruth as a condition of life, that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil.
Nietzsche

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

The secret of man's being is not only to live, but to have something to live for.
Dostoevesky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoi

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault]

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
Anaïs Nin

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel, and I am in torment.
Catullus, Odes, LXXXV

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
T. H. White

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.
Cat Stevens

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
Ludwig Börne

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the sufferage of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown

I don't want to be bitter about life - about love and friendship and all the human, emotional entanglements. I've had more than my share of human disappointments, deprivations, disillusionment. I want to love people and life above all; I want to be able to say always, "If you feel bitter or disillusioned, there is something wrong with yourself, not with people, not with life."
Henry Miller

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
Goethe

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Nietzsche

Ah, it wouldn't be complete without a quote or two from Homer Simpson. Off the top of my head:
"I'm soaring majestically like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft!" or "This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit."
Hee hee.