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  • Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
        Unknown   Best?
  • With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • Knowledge is true opinion.
        Plato   Best?
  • Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
        George Bush Sr.   Best?
  • Men willingly believe what they wish.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.
        Arthur Schlesinger Jr.   Best?
  • All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
        George Carlin   Best?
  • Believing where we cannot prove.
        Alfred, Lord Tennyson   Best?
  • Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
        Mother Theresa   Best?
  • Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
        Chiam Potok   Best?
  • Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
        Sophia Loren   Best?
  • Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
        Plato   Best?
  • We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
        Alfred Alder   Best?
  • One day dogs are going to rule
        Tre Cool   Best?
  • Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
        Sigmund Freud   Best?
  • Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?

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