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Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
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