- Unknown
I am an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
- Harold Wilson
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
- George Carlin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
The Brain is my second favorite organ.
- Woody Allen
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
- Mark Twain
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
- Dr. Seuss
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Jim Bishop
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
- Unknown
You are never less alone than when alone.
- Unknown
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
- Gandhi
Evil tricks you into doing its work by making you hate it.
- Chinese Proverb
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde
In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these
- Paul Harvey
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Since we had nothing to do with our arrival, and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we are entitled to so much while we’re here?
- Malcolm Forbes
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world… Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has
- Margaret Mead
If not you, who? If not now, when?
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Nietzsche
If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got
- Anonymous
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
- Abraham Lincoln
For every one thousand who hack at the branches of evil, only one is hacking at the root
- Anonymous
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
~ Thomas Jefferson
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
~ Plato
Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The three grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for
~ Alexander Chalmers
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong
~ Gandhi
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
~ Bertram Russell
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies
~ Groucho Marx
Americans are so enamored with equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom
~ Alexis De Tocqueville
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction… Fiction has to make sense
~ Mark Twain
Greater than the force of mighty armies is the power of an idea whose time has come
~ Victor Hugo
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it
~ George Bernard Shaw
The truth is more important than the facts
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a theory that if anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced with something that is even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states this has already happened.
~ Douglas Adams
Most people would rather die than think. In fact, they do
~Bertrand Russell
The reason we’ve never had a female Mozart is the same reason we’ve never had a female Jack the Ripper.
~ Camille Paglia
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious takes longer.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Men often stumble on the truth, but usually dust themselves off and hurry away
~ Winston Churchill
Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion
~ Joseph Campbell
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use
~ Galileo
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, and the other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In modern society, the opposite of courage is not cowardice – it is conformity
~ Rollo May
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Christianity
"The eye of a needle" is part of a saying of Jesus recorded in the synoptic gospels:
...I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Parallel versions appear in Matthew 19:23-24, Mark 10:24-25, and Luke 18:24-25.
The saying was a response to a young rich man who had asked Jesus what he needed to do in order to inherit eternal life. Jesus replied that he should keep the commandments, to which the man stated he had done. Jesus responded, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." The young man became sad and was unwilling to do this. Jesus then spoke this response, leaving his disciples astonished.
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