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It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

 Walt Disney, in  Success and Failure

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

 G. C. Lichtenberg, in  Art and Literature and  Wisdom and Ignorance

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

 Cicero, in  War and Peace

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

 Benjamin Disraeli, in  Science and Religion

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

 Doug Horton, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

 Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

 Winston Churchill, in  Success and Failure

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

 Phyllis Diller, in  Life and Death

Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.

 Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in  Love and Hate

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

 Albert Einstein, in  War and Peace

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

 Anatole France, in  Success and Failure

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

 Winston Churchill, in  Success and Failure

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

 Joseph Conrad, in  Art and Literature

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  Work and Recreation

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Science and Religion

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

 Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

 Albert Einstein, in  War and Peace

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

 Frederick the Great, in  Law and Politics

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

 David Knight, in  Wisdom and Ignorance