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  • #1
    “The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.”
    Stacy Keach

  • #2
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.”
    Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: joy, living

  • #3
    Lance Armstrong
    “Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.”
    Lance Armstrong

  • #4
    Ayn Rand
    “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #5
    “The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.”
    The London Times 1886

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #7
    Don DeLillo
    “I like simple men and complicated women.”
    Don DeLillo
    tags: men, women

  • #8
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #9
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #10
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
    Napoleon

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What kind of dining set defines me as a person?”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #13
    Voltaire
    “A witty saying proves nothing.”
    Voltaire

  • #14
    Tennessee Williams
    “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
    Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

  • #15
    Alexander Pope
    “True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
    What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #16
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #17
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

    [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #18
    “A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”
    Ramsey Clark
    tags: rights

  • #19
    Richard Bach
    “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”
    Richard Bach

  • #20
    Allan Bloom
    “Equality has no place for genius.”
    Allen Bloom

  • #21
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
    “War, the world’s only hygiene.”
    Filippo Marinetti
    tags: war

  • #22
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
    Edsger W. Dijkstra

  • #23
    “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
    United States Marine Corps

  • #24
    Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.
    “I prefer to think of it as burning down their crops. [when asked why he - a fervent anti-Communist - smoked Cuban cigars]”
    Gen. Alexander Haig

  • #25
    “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
    Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”
    Howard Hughes

  • #26
    “Life is a fancy kind of rust inflicting the surface of certain lukewarm minor planets.”
    unk. scientist, How the Universe Works (2010)
    tags: life

  • #27
    “Bars in the daytime are like women without makeup.”
    Lady Snowblood (1973)
    tags: bars

  • #28
    If you knew how much I loved you, you'd faint.
    “If you knew how much I loved you, you'd faint.”
    Joel McCrea, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
    tags: love



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