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“Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.”
― Morihei Ueshiba

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
― Barry Goldwater

“I prefer Winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape- the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of Winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
― Andrew Wyeth

“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”
― Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

“Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.”
― Harry S. Truman

“That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
― Christopher Buckley

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted off the entire bows in one shattering detonations. For a second, the lightened fo'c'sle reared high into the air" then it plunged down, deep down, into the shoulder of a rolling sea. She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spinning screws. The still thundering engines her own executioners.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.”
― John le Carré, A Small Town in Germany

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
― Isaac Asimov

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”
― Winston Churchill

“I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam.”
― Popeye the sailorman

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
― Larry Brown

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball

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― Lucille Ball

“I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people all over the world think twice about what was once, and still could be again, a great country, when what happened on September 11th should have made ordinary, decent people all over the world embrace America as never before. I don't like it that neo-conservative politicians bully their so-called allies while playing to the worst, racist instincts of their own bewildered electorate. I don't like it that we live in an era where to be anti-war is to be anti-American, to be pro-Palestine is to be anti-Semitic, to be critical of Blair is somehow to be supportive of Putin and Chirac. All anybody is asking for in this so-called age of terror is some leadership. Yet everywhere you look in public life there is no truth, no courage, no dignity to speak of.”
― Charles Cumming, Typhoon

“The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.”
― Charles Cumming, The Spanish Game

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
― H.L. Mencken