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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-Bertrand Russell

"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
-Anon.

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
-John Lennon

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
-Milton Berle

"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"A will finds a way."
-Orison Swett Marden

"Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."
Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words."
-Napoleon

"No man is ever old enough to know better."
-Holbrook Jackson, "Ladies' Home Journal", January, 1950

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Imagination

"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
-Anon.

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
-Edmund Burke

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
-Jules de Gautier

"Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"
NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
-Howard Aiken

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-Don Herold

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
-Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
-Oscar Wilde

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
Lat., "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."
-Horace, Odes

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
-Margaret Mead

"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."
-Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks

"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."
-Whitney Moore, Jr.

""The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church."
-Ferdinand Magellan

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
-Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
-Mary Kay Ash