Mr Ideahamster's Favorite Quotes

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101

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
102 If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. Ted Turner
103 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. - George Bernard Shaw
104 The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time. - Richard Nixon
105 When the game is over, the pawn and the king go back into the same box.
106 The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith
107 Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
108 Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas J. Watson
109

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath. Alan Dershowitz

110 More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen
111 You need the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by obvious bias. You also need the humility to recognize when your insight is limited and your best course is to trust an expert. Charlie Munger (paraphrased)