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Friday round up


Quotes That Caught My Eye
Eric Hoffer

  • The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
  • We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
  • It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Ambrose Bierce

  • Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  • There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
  • To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

H.L. Mencken

  • An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
  • Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
  • Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  • Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
  • I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
  • It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
  • Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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