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

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”
― William of Ockham

“the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense”
― Vladimir Nobokov

“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”
― Martin Buber, Paths in Utopia

“It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing”
― Duke Ellington

“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

“I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.”
― Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice

“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
― John XXIII

“
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be. ”
― Archbishop Oscar Romero

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
― Philo

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

“In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.”
― Kurt Vonnegut , Timequake

“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”
― Santa Teresa de Jesús

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
― Plutarch

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust and ruins about us.”
― Alfred Delp, Alfred Delp, SJ: Prison Writings

“Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.”
― Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”
― Cesar Chavez

“There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.”
― César Chávez