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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mind Insanity Logic Accurate Often
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. Ray Bradbury
Good Stupid Mars Any Going Land
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Rita Mae Brown
Best You Suffering Three Every Think Okay Out Statistics Some Mental Mental Illness Friends American Form Then Your Sanity Illness Four
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. Robert A. Heinlein
Time Best Travel Space Made Enough Elsewhere Collapse Possible About Crowded ID Go Gets Space Travel Place Social Far Far Away Require Away Thing
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' Rudyard Kipling
You Heart Will Long Gone Nothing Says Nerve Except Force Hold After Which Them Turn Your Serve
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling
Love Patience Man Heaven Us Grant
He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling
Alone Travel He Who Travels Fastest
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir
Society Cares Only Individual He Far Profitable
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal
Love Fears Our Pleasures Proportion Always
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson
Thankful Thanksgiving Me More Make Lord Truly May Received
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart. Sue Monk Kidd
Soul Heart Eyes World Opportunity Ourselves Plunge See Give Mysterious Through Bottom Empathy Most Identify Another Accessible Up Human Transaction Where Story Us Human Soul
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Tavi Gevinson
Life Best Myself Day You Trust Wake Up Try My Life Joke Too Everyone Out Freak About Never Excited Put Disappointed Long-Running Like For The Day Know Practical Wake Up Motto Expectations Get Any Anything Really Lower Your Standards Prepare Ever Basically
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine
Value Too Everything Only Gives Cheap Lightly Obtain Esteem
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. Thomas Paine
Freedom People Poverty Say Rather Had Make Fit Than Any Taxes Choice Loaded
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
Good Religion World Country
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine
Man Atheist Humanity Holding Medicine Philosophy Consists Argue Like Dead Contempt Authority Convert Scripture Use Reason Who Whose
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. Voltaire
Life Death Fear Enjoy Life No Fear Nothing Enjoy Secret Safest Course Against Conscience
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. Voltaire
Wife Husband Himself Surprise Surprised His Very Often Decide Much Who
Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire
Clever Tyrants Punished Never
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. W. E. B. Du Bois
Justice Legal Political Consistency Important More Precedence Than Plain Right
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois
Life Soul School Thought Black Men Girl Long Breath White Living Machinery Out Black Or White Russian Study Mortar Houses Makes Piles Boy Real Boys And Girls Cultivated Trained Greek American Send Human Whether Them Breathes Themselves Teach Brick Human Soul Strengthened
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? W. E. B. Du Bois
Power Defense Else Shall Sheer Ballot Us Second Slavery Need Save
Education is the development of power and ideal. W. E. B. Du Bois
Education Power Development Ideal
They who drink beer will think beer. Washington Irving
Beer Will Think Drink Who
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward
Life You Balance Sense Of Humor Walk Humor Sense Adds Steps Pole Tightrope Your
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. Ursula K. Le Guin
Maturity Believe I Believe I Believe That Adult Dead Up Survived Child Who Growing Growing Up
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