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  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • A good home must be made, not bought.
        Joyce Maynard   Best?
  • What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
        Andre Agassi   Best?
  • Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
        Ani Difranco   Best?
  • Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
        Jack London   Best?
  • Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
        Plato   Best?
  • No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
        Plato   Best?
  • Under every stone lurks a politician.
        Aristophanes   Best?
  • There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
        Socrates   Best?
  • I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
        Themistocles   Best?
  • A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
        Homer   Best?
  • A good garden may have some weeds.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
        Socrates   Best?
  • I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapt 27)
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Watch?? I'm gonna pray, man! Know any good religions?
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
        Al Gore   Best?
  • It's a weird year.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
        Jerry Falwell   Best?
  • The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
        Edouard Manet   Best?
  • Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
        Confucious   Best?
  • TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
        Katharine Whitehorn   Best?
  • Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
        Doctor Who   Best?
  • Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
        Queen Elizabeth   Best?
  • There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?

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