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Wisdom Quotes by John Alejandro King
- An aphorism and its author aren't joined by a dash, but separated by it.
- Give me a lever, and I shall move the world (oh, and I'll also need a world).
- I'm damned if I do, but I'm only darned if I don't.
- There's a famous saying: If 99% was good enough, gravity wouldn't work for 14 minutes every day. I did the calculation, and it's actually 14…
- You don't drink to drown your sorrows, you drink to give them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
- When Jesus told us to love one another, He never said we had to like it.
- If you can prepare for it, it isn't the worst.
- The camouflage you admire doesn't deserve it.
- The puppeteer pulls the puppet's strings. The puppet pulls the audience's strings. The audience pulls the puppeteer's strings.
- I'd love to change the world, but I can't find a big enough diaper.
- The exception grooves the rule.
- We can't let the terrorists win. No matter how softly we toss the ball to them, they miss it every time.
- Everybody line up and form an ascending spiral.
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