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“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.”

“Er, five,” said the mattress.

“Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said someone to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vol 1, Books 1-5

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach