1. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Genius is finding them.
3. It’s better to be a first-rate coming of yourself than the 2nd coming of someone else. –Judy Garland
4. Loyalty is the sin that absolves all others.
6. Those who don’t like the answers tend to rewrite the questions.
8. The powerful are forged at their most powerless.
9. I’d rather be a “think I can” over a "wish I was”
10. The only difference between a good business deal and a good swindle is fairness and honesty
11. There’s only one way to treat an abomination in the eyes of god; abominally.
12. Atheists don’t have all the answers, just the questions
13. You don’t have a hell in hope.
14. Jargon’s purpose is to exclude the clueless and exclusively include the clued in.
15. Gloating’s a bender; sometimes we regret the hangover, other times the party’s worth it.
16. “What if everybody did it” is bullsh!t.
17. Infinity is mostly filler.
18. An infinity that contains all possibilities seems impossible. This means infinity is impossible by being the opposite of impossible.
19. Irony is the amusement of the intelligent and the anathema of the ignorant.
20. I wonder if magnetic monopoles could be used in a perpetual motion machine and is the reason neither exist.
21. I believe in both climate change and evolution in that each is the cause of the other.
22. I’d like to be the world’s first rich pessimist of vision but that would make me an optometrist.
23. It’s less important to share the same aspiration for happiness than to share fair rules for its pursuit.
24. Are all religions equal or, like people, are some better than others?
25. Which religion is best? Can one keep an eye out for something better or is it like a marriage?
26. Life’s not about inner wealth, it’s about inter-wealth, connection and interesting conversation.
27. I can accept the wrongness of my choices but I could never abdicate my ability to choose for the sake of being right.
28. There’s nothing more wrong than abdicating one’s freedom of choice for the sake of being right.
29. What your values can’t unravel will eventually unravel your values.
30. Beliefs out in the open become fair game.
31. I have a dream that one day we will live in a nation where we will not be judged by the content of our paper trail.
32. Universal love won’t solve the world’s problems but solving the world’s problems may bring about universal love.
33. We may all aspire to happiness but unhappiness is the result when we aspire at the expense of others.
34. If everyone recognized their “great capacity”, that would by definition diminish mine to relatively average.
35. I hold this truth to be self-evident, we’re not equal but should be treated equal.
37. A waterfall can’t flow without the stream that feeds it yet we can love without being loved.
38. When it comes to knowledge, facts are just the ingredients, reason is the recipe.
39. Don’t believe everything you read but don’t disbelieve it either.
40. Love’s not the 1st step nor even the goal; it’s the byproduct of everyday steps towards making oneself more attractive to the world.
41. Words are powerful and their power is co-opted when their meaning is corrupted.
42. Preventative prayer: How can we predict where god will strike next? An ounce of prayer is worth a pound of care.
43. An intellectual may be faulted for the content of his opinions but a pseudo-intellectual is faulted for just having opinions.
44. I believe all beliefs are holey . . in that they’re full of holes.
45. I confuse patience with procrastination and often reflect on its benefits while waiting.
46. I kept capital letters out of my tweets because I couldn’t be bothered. But then I thought what others thought I couldn’t be bothered with
47. A fountain of empathy needs to be fed from a source of kindness.
48. Reality is simply a matter of scale.
49. Inventing’s like taking a dump; you gotta push really hard and you never know what’s going to come out in the end.
50. Falling in love with your decisions is much like falling in love; both result in bad decisions.
51. Atheists: people religiously faithful to their belief in non-belief.
52. Atheists: people preoccupied with disproving the existence of the non-existent.
53. I’m not an atheist, I’m just indoctrinally challenged.
54. No doubt the greatest invention of all time: Religion; very inventive.
55. The future’s only palatable once it’s been digested by the past.
56. The Eternal Impasse: God beseeches humanity and we beseech him right back.
57. We’re not the “same” because we share reality, we’re only the same when we share the same values.
58. Success is the art of turning talent into money. The art of turning money into talent is called boy bands.
59. Future shock is only shocking in the present.
60. Only 4 things are known to slow time: cold, gravity, velocity and Wednesdays.
61. It’s a universal feeling that our cleverness is the main thing that differentiates us from other people.
62. Shared reality rarely results in shared perceptions, yet shared beliefs almost always do.
63. I’m no longer convinced opportunity knocks so much as answers.
64. Shakespeare’s words get in the way of his plays the same way music gets in the way of opera.
65. Mankind could use more mankindness.
66. If we view all evil as random, without intent or blame, evil has no doorway, and anger no foothold, to claim.
67. The pain of doing the right thing can never exceed the benefit.
68. They say good advice is worth its weight in gold but neglect to mention advice doesn’t weigh anything.
69. Fairness and honesty allows taking advantage of a good business situation without taking advantage of good people.
70. If you don’t know where you’re going, take the road less travelled. -Lewis Carroll/Robert Frost
71. Friends in deed are friends in need.
72. Rarely do the truly simple brag how simple they are.
73. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, enjoy what’s in between.
74. Success is exceeding others expectations but never your own.
75. IF YOU HATE THIS MESSAGE!!! then you’re case sensitive.
76. I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. So, as a joke, I asked if I could borrow his shoes. We both laughed.
77. Open-mindedness is more a suspension of belief than a suspension of disbelief.
78. As Pauli said some theories are not even wrong, they can’t be proven wrong and even if right, shed no light
79. The purpose of life is to breach the barrier between dreams and reality, to drag them kicking and screaming into the real world.
80. Now is all there is. What would have been never was and can’t be gauged against.
81. The only problem in making your dreams a reality is the reality part.
82. The art of love draws in all the senses and makes for one loud, messy, pungent, slightly salty picture.
83. The tightest snare is made from words, one’s own.
84. Love less loyalty leaves loneliness.
85. Failure is just another way of getting an education unless it’s an actual education, then F’s are not so good.
86. Becoming a priority in someone’s life doesn’t mean 100% of the time; to juggle priorities, one must have options.
87. The key to happiness is a long term commitment to short term memory.
88. Altruism the truest of all truisms: Treat others as they wish to be treated.
89. If history has taught us anything it’s that every prevailing theory is eventually proven wrong
90. Rejection makes the dispassionate less determined and the passionate more so.
91. Quotes are like seashells, some are too far out and beyond one’s depth
92. It’s ok to poke people on their beliefs so long as they’re not too closely tied to them or C4.
93. Turn pursuit into attraction; make what you want, want you.
94. The greatest rewards will be incidental to the direct pursuit of your passions.
95. Reality is a puzzle; the reward is getting enough of the pieces to fit.
96. Some goals are like the horizon, the harder we pursue, the faster they recede
97. Your words are like bird droppings on my clean page. I try to brush them aside but they still smear.
98. I prefer those who can take it but can’t dish it out.
99. Religions need to be organized by definition. No way could 2 people come up with the same unlikely stuff independently
100. It’s ironically difficult not to get angry when defending people who speak out against anger and intolerance.
101. Religions require 2 things: miracles and a messenger who’s more memorable than the message
102. Nearly everyone agrees on what’s great. It’s agreeing on what’s mediocre that separates the classes
103. The key to everything: warm hearts/cool heads.
104. Never take a truth for granted or as self-evident.
105. Tolerance is oft confused with weakness, anger and intolerance with strength
106. Keep your enemies close and their girl-friends even closer
107. Those who wrestle with you are not necessarily your enemies. Those who knee you in the groin, are
108. Good and evil aren’t like oil and water; they mix quite readily
109. Happiness is the score after you count your blessings.
110. Happiness isn’t counting your blessings; it’s not having to count your blessings
111. There are tears of joy, sorrow, pain but fears are shed when tears are shed of determination
112. Treat people how THEY wish to be treated. Consider their values without imposing your own.
113. There is nothing so powerful as a man armed with a dream and nothing so vulnerable.
114. Nothing can stop a man armed with a dream except maybe reality or a con man
115. Favors are like wishes; not to be wasted or given away
116. Life’s a test but you’re allowed to look at anyone’s answers
117. The worst thing about living in a soap bubble would be slowly coming to that realization. The same may be true for any reality
118. People don’t become divas because they’re really successful, they become successful because they’re really divas
119. It’s one thing to say you’re young at heart but no one wants to see the actual proof.
120. Religions are nothing more than savings plans for spiritual capital (or regular capital on the ancient Egyptian plan)
121. Twitter: Follow to be followed but the more you follow, the less you’re actually following
122. Many who claim they can alter reality, begin by distorting the facts
123. To build a wider comfort zone, one must spend a lot of time outside it
124. Conjecture is inversely proportional to the amount of information available
125. The Universe is listening but unfortunately sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum
126. Blame: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and if it is broke, don’t call attention to yourself. T. Bert Lance
127. Intersation: Interesting conversation is what sates our inter-selves.
128. The 4 elements of intersation: people, places, events and ideas.
129. The true measure of a man’s character is not how he fights for his beliefs but how gracefully he slinks away when wrong.
130. It takes a big man to admit he’s wrong, an even bigger man to admit he’s big. I need to drop 30 lbs. Fletch
131. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything like my ex-wife’s wiener schnitzel." – Albert Einstein
132. Women always worry about the things that men forget; how does the rest of this go? – Albert Einstein
133. Let everyone sweep into the front of his own door and the whole world will be clean; except for indoors." – Goethe
134. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind, throw matter and those who throw matter don’t mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
135. Nothing’s impossible? the very words say “Sigh, I’m n,not possible.” Audrey Hepburn stuttering
136. Truth is stranger than fiction but only when it’s embellished with fiction. Mark Twain
137. If I lived as if I’ll die today I’d have a lot of ‘splainin to do tomorrow. James Dean and Ricky Ricardo
138. What doesn’t kill you will probably thrill you. Friedrich Nietzsche
139. Life is like a coin. Spend it wisely and don’t suck at it." ~Lillian Dickson
140. It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – so it’s ok to make your teacher. John Bradshaw
141. We hold these “truths” to be pre-evolutionary, that all “men” are “created” “equal”. Thomas Jefferson
142. Take the first step in faith so long as it’s not down an open elevator shaft. Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
143. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness unless you can’t find the damn matches. Carl Sagan
144. You can lead a vegetarian to water, but you can’t teach him to fish. proverb
145. Misery loves company, until someone starts whining, then misery is company. John Ray
146. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are asleep at the time. – Les Brown
147. Seth Godin : “If you can’t state your position in eight words or less, you don’t have a position.” 1,2,3 . . doah!.
148. Payback is the fragrance that the doggydo sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain
149. It is amazing what you can accomplish once you take all the credit. – Harry Truman
150. The difficult and the improbable are often mistaken for the impossible.
151. People say I have the mind of a 15 year old and should give it back!
152. What doesn’t fulfill you will slowly kill you.
153. Success is only a matter of time and timing.
154. Laughter: I don’t care if it’s with me or at me so long as it’s laughter.
155. Racism, like any “ism”, requires indoctrination and brainwashing usually from an early age; much like religionism.
156. The wise see what they think about what they see; the shallow think what they see is all they need think. -altered Huang Po
157. You’d think lotteries would be where the Law of Attraction would have proven itself.
158. Cash is not the measure of a man, just everything else.
159. Life’s like a pyramid not a tower, that’s why there’s no room at the top.
160. One should never compound ignorance with insistence.
161. Inventors are architects who bridge the ideal to the real.
162. Beliefs require an emotional attachment that reason does not.
163. The measure of a man’s annoying character is how he continues to fight for his beliefs in the face of all reason.
164. The way we treat each other is our fault. The way we treat the earth is our folly.
165. Positive thinking is the only scientifically proven way to ward off hexes and jinxes.
166. Genius is often proven without the prerequisite of practicality.
167. Sometimes undoing unto others is what they’d like done.
168. Treat people how THEY wish 2B treated.
169. Do unto others as they’d like to be done unto.
170. Doing unto others involves understanding what they’d like done.
171. To right something worth righting, write something worth writing.
172. Respect is given to those who earn it and earned by those who give it.
173. What doesn’t break you, may make you, but will definitely mark you.
174. This just in, airplanes and bumble bees can fly afterall. No need for any more quotes about the impossible being possible.
175. A choice not made has no consequences except in one’s own mind.
176. Procrastination is patience without the pain, or gain.
177. Salespeople! Keep your mettle to the peddle!
177.5 A salesman goal is dispensing happiness the same way a lawyer’s goal is dispensing justice.
178. The head’s always trying to talk the heart out of something.
179. The enemy of mine enemy is someone I can’t really vouch for.
180. If looking for someone to hate, find someone to blame.
181. Light: it’s not that nothing’s faster, it’s that everything else is relatively slower.
182. Conversely if anything’s possible, arriving at the truth is not.
183. Blame is the seed of guilt and loathing.
184. Progress is the continual adjustment of one’s beliefs.
185. The spoken word just doesn’t have the same depth and rhythm when written.
186. Education’s purpose is to keep the number of opinions down to a manageable level.
187. A perfect vacuum’s impossible which confirms that nothing’s impossible.
188. If played well, procrastination can pass for patience.
189. The enemy of mine enemy is me; the rest are just more enemies
190. Like whiskey, the future is mellowed by the passage time.
191. Progress is the unfamiliar residue of yesterday’s endeavors.
192. Loving what you do is better than succeeding at what you don`t.
193. Fashion’s a passion but the cash-in’s the trash in that’s never in fashion.
194. It’s better to gather and float on the salvage than go down with the ship.
195. Fork off! If you can’t follow your dreams, follow your opportunities . . . to new dreams.
196. Dick Wagner said, Joy’s not in things it’s in us? Not true, it’s in things until we suck the joy out of things, then we get new things.
197. Knowledge begins with questions, belief begins with answers.
198. The only force that conquers evil is an equal and opposite one.
199. Ethics is a great way to teach people what to avoid getting caught at.
200. It must be tough to be a public servant and hated by the public you serve..
201. What doesn’t kill you will mark you strongly.
202. The eyes are the windows to the mind, the ears are the blinders.
203. Great people are forged in the furnace and fire of feeling powerless.
204. Men are not so often judged for their choices but for the unexpected results.
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206. Only at the moment of impact does a bug see its “end” coming.
207. Beliefs endure when they can’t be questioned. Knowledge endures when they can.
208. In unfamiliar territory, the longer you remain, the more familiar it becomes.
209. To paraphrase Edison, “Opportunity knocks but with the work gloves on.”
210. For some, education’s a can opener for the mind; for others, it’s a lid.
211. Mistakes are the temper to our mettle.
211a. Look back on mistakes with gratitude and look forward to them without apprehension.
212. As in quantum physics, taking a read of where you are will affect where you’re going.
213. Imagination is oft limited to the imaginable; reality is not.
214. Innovation is like any flower, it blooms when the time is right.
215. Meditation is not about problem solving, it’s about enlightenment. You produce no useful output, you just feel lighter.
216. Recognize bad intentions and advice by how readily they’re taken to heart.
217. Quitting’s like a brush that cleans the slate and clears the mind.
218. Peer pressure is an excellent motivator for doing something stupid.
219. Conversation’s the goal of all endeavors great and small
220. Exhaust your options, quit, then come back with more options.
221. Risk→reward, recklessness→regret.
222. The more you get, the more you need to clean.
223. Filter through your head before taking anything to heart.
224. Success is driven by the wish for happiness, the result of failure
225. Take a chance, bet the farm, just believe and fail as often as possible. Huh? What? Really?
226. The key to money is staying close to the flow.
227. “Failure is an event, never a person” (unless he’s the one responsible for the event.)
228. The horizon’s not the goal; it’s the paths crossed moving towards it.
229. The horizon beckons but is neither guide nor goal. With each foot fall it recedes forever in every and any direction.
230. All seeds can, but the few who do are the ones who find their niche.
231. You can halve your cake and then eat two.
233. Twitter’s for those, who love the sound of their own prose.
234. The peak’s not a sign of even more to come, but the start of the inevitable decline.
235. The difference is a wise man is asked for his opinions, an opinionated man is not.
236. Love is continuous renewal, even of all that is old and familiar.
237. Love is missing someone even if they’re right beside you.
238. A painting of love would be drawn in and also draw in all the senses.
239. The only choice I have is the one I make. All the rest are inconsequential.
240. What’s known, dwarfs what’s understood.
241. The benefit of the doubt rarely benefits the doubter.
242. Just listen, people will inadvertently cough up what they want most hidden.
244. Every system eventually subverts the ideal that spawned it.
245. Success breeds confidence; confidence, success.
246. The physics of love: It’s a reaction, rarely equal but often opposite.
247. Always strive for perfection but accept never reaching it.
248. Fascism lies disguised, cloaked in pride and blindly obeyed.
250. Fascism is the worm at the core of every ideology.
251. A good manager views his employees as not the obstacles to success, but the means.
252. Belief endures unchanged, knowledge endures through change.
253. The squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease; it gets replaced.
254. May you live without ever having to get your affairs in order.
255. My judgment’s just good enough to realize how bad my judgment is.
256. If we could just foresee the consequences of our decisions, we’d make really good decisions.
257. May you live forgetful of the past, unaware of the present and mindless of the future.
258. The unlikely, although infrequent, is inevitable.
259. Know the impossible knot is knot possible.
260. The best helping hands are the ones you apply to your own bootstraps.
261. There are no dumb ideas, just unexplored marketing opportunities.
262. Mistakes are relative to all the possible outcomes and choices never made.
263. Dignity commands respect, starting with self-respect.
264. We’re all dying. I myself could go anytime within the next 40 or 50 years.
265. Mistakes are life’s tuition, best avoided with intuition.
266. Foresight is far less costly than hindsight.
267. Fight hate with hate and hate wins.
268. happiness is charged with surprises and discharged through disappointments.
269. Happiness is a warm puppy; unhappiness is a cold one.
270. Happiness is not having to deal with tedium, stupidity or dishonesty.
271. Creation cancels its own conditions.
272. Say what you mean unless it’s mean.
273. Enlightenment comes at the darkest moments.
274. Argue with a fool (or liar) and no one will know the difference.
275. The opposite of nothing is hing.
276. There’s no excuse for what happened and I won’t rest ‘til I find one
277. If change is the only constant, the only true radicals are conservatives.
278. Truth can never be found by placing your beliefs above the system of proof that gave them to you.
279. The consequence of dismissing a coincidence is missing its significance.
280. The problem with being put up on a pedestal is dealing with the people who put you there.
281. I’m all for religious persecution so long as religion isn’t doing the persecuting;)
283. If there’s one thing I can’t tolerate it’s intolerance.
285. Without science, no truth. Without religion, no hope.