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If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tsu, in Wealth and Poverty

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Jess Lair, in Happiness and Misery

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett, in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

David Hume, in Law and Politics

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe, in War and Peace

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke, in Art and Literature

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra, in Wisdom and Ignorance

It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann, in Law and Politics