Kamm's quotes

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
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"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
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"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world
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"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
996 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing
355 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,505 people liked it

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
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"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
601 people liked it

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
— Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world
402 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
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"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
— C.S. Lewis (Weight of Glory and Other Addresses)

tags: christianity
240 people liked it

"And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.""
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

tags: gulliver, humor, politics
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"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
4 people liked it

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

3 people liked it

"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
— P. J. O'Rourke

2 people liked it

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

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,241 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
206 people liked it

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: self-improvement
35 people liked it

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand

206 people liked it

"The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained."
— Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness)

2 people liked it

"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
— Ayn Rand

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. "
— Ayn Rand

3 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
314 people liked it

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

164 people liked it

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: government, inspirational, politics
144 people liked it

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics
133 people liked it

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
— Ayn Rand

71 people liked it

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Aristotle

tags: politics
76 people liked it

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
— Ronald Reagan

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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
— Edward Abbey

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" It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
— Voltaire

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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
— Harry S. Truman

tags: censorship, politics
60 people liked it

"As government expands, liberty contracts."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: government, politics
51 people liked it

"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: general, government, welfare
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry

tags: politics
30 people liked it

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
— Plato

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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable..."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: government, thought
24 people liked it

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
— Ronald Reagan

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