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Andrew A. Rooney


The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Jerry Coleman


The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

Mary Pickford


If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Aleister Crowley


Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question.

Saint Augustine


Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Mark Twain


In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Theodore Isaac Rubin


There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

William Cowper


The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Denis Diderot


What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Robert Louis Stevenson


Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Pearl Buck


Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Virgil, Aeneid


Each of us bears his own Hell.

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