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“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
― Paul Keating

“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Religion is the opium of the poor”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
"Yes."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
― Albert Einstein

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher

“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
― Albert Einstein

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
― Albert Einstein

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
― Albert Einstein

“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
― Albert Einstein

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
― Albert Einstein

“I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
― Albert Einstein

“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”
― Albert Einstein

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain