| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Aging | Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
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| Average | To be better than average, you only have to be better than half.
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| Beliefs | What's the difference between belief and science? Belief is conviction without evidence. Science is evidence without conviction.
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| Cats | You can train a cat to do anything it wants to do.
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| Charity | For some folks, Christian charity is only a stone's throw away.
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| Children | All children have good hearts, until someone beats it out of them.
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| Commitment | The difference between contribution and commitment? Ham and eggs requires a contribution from the chicken, but a commitment from the pig.
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| Evil | Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
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| Ideology | The problem with ideology is that people start killing for it.
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| Ignorance | Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
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| Journalists | I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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| Lawyers | Nothing is as dangerous as an unemployed lawyer.
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| Life | There's no such thing as a long and happy life. A long life means saying goodbye to old friends one after the other.
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| Majority | A majority vote doesn't prove anything. Look up lemmings.
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| Opinion | An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts. When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.
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| Politics | The difference between politics and chemistry? Nobody fools around in a chem lab.
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| Politics | A politician's success is measured by his ability to get elected. If he's good at that, he doesn't have to be good at anything else.
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| politics | What neither political party has ever learned is the most basic of all lessons: When you make someone else's character the issue, your own character becomes the issue too.
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| Prayer | God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
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| respect | Lack of respect has to be earned.
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| stifling influence | The Roman Empire didn't collapse. It choked to death on an overdose of taxes, lawyers, and Christians.
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| Storytelling | Just because a story might be true is no reason not to tell it.
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| Telekinesis | All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
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| Thinking | Independent thinking does not mean questioning other people's convictions. It means questioning your own.
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| Truth | Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
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| War | The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
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| War | The enforcement mechanism for the rules of war is usually more war.
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| war | As long as war is an alternative, it will always be the answer.
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