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Thoughts That Win - Dusty Lens - 02-14-2009
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -Tom Robbins
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 02-14-2009
"The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them." - Thomas Edison.
Thoughts That Win - Xoria - 02-14-2009
All governments suffer a recurring problem : Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
~ in Chapterhouse : Dune by Frank Herbert
Thoughts That Win - Jihadjoe - 02-15-2009
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -Chuck Palahniuk
Thoughts That Win - Klauss.Steiner - 02-15-2009
"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." - Confucius
"What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others" - Confucius
"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my crooked arm for a pillow - is not joy to be found therein? Riches and honors acquired through unrighteousness are to me as the floating clouds" - Confucius
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 02-20-2009
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice, that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person." - Arthur Schopenhauer.
"Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in." - George Bernard Shaw.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 02-27-2009
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 02-28-2009
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus.
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." - The Dalai Lama.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 03-01-2009
"No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy." - Hitopadesa.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 03-02-2009
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.