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The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life. — Woody Allen
Satire is tragedy plus time. — Lenny Bruce
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average. — J. Michael Bailey
In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your… — Harry Browne
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious… — Jonah Goldberg
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. — Jack Handey
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying. — Joseph Heller
If you will it, it is no dream — Theodor Herzl
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a… — Thomas Sowell
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. — Sun Tzu
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what… — Walter Bagehot
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception — Marcus Aurelius
Introspection is always retrospection — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped — Benjamin Franklin
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think — Eugene Ionesco
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality — Ivan Pavlov
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all — Carlos Castaneda
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different… — Emile Durkheim

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