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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
446 people liked it

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
— Theodore Roosevelt

45 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."
— Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

5 people liked it

"I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: friends
229 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
296 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
738 people liked it

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

175 people liked it

"Ignorance never settles a question."
— Benjamin Disraeli

3 people liked it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food
1,008 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,153 people liked it

"I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

39 people liked it

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: anger
67 people liked it

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: humor, intelligence, politics
22 people liked it

"Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel."
— Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

15 people liked it

"Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first."
— Ambrose Bierce

8 people liked it

"Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: water
10 people liked it

"Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity."
— Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

7 people liked it

"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
— Ambrose Bierce

9 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,595 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,878 people liked it

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech
65 people liked it

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck

tags: writing
213 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
404 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
337 people liked it

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: faith
144 people liked it

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

72 people liked it

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: religion
70 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
316 people liked it

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
— Mark Twain

tags: cats, lesson
156 people liked it

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