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Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 03-23-2009
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann.
Thoughts That Win - JakeSG - 03-23-2009
Regarding religions/gods:
"This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, 'possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
I like his style of thinking:D
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 03-25-2009
"You cannot conceive the many without the one." - Plato.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 03-30-2009
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding." - Epicurus.
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Thoughts That Win - Montezuma/Kukulcan - 03-30-2009
"All great truths begin as blasphemies" - George Bernard Shaw
Therefore
"Believe only what you know yourself to be true" - Me
Thoughts That Win - radgar - 03-30-2009
"If you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite"
- Winston Churchill
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 04-01-2009
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway." - Elbert Hubbard.
"All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain." - Epictetus.
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin.
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 04-03-2009
"If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking." - George Smith Patton III.
Thoughts That Win - Dieter Schprokets - 04-03-2009
"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics." Ayn Rand
Thoughts That Win - n00bl3t - 04-03-2009
"Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened" - Unattributed proverb.