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Aphorisms 25
So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
— Mildred D. Taylor
I love quotes… but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless.
— Tony Robbins
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
— Luigi Pirandello
Where faith falls short, statistics help.
— Werner Ehrenforth
Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad…
— Tony Robbins
Sex between two people is a beautiful thing; among five it's fantastic.
— Woody Allen
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.
— Woody Allen
Easy to make things look hard; but it's hard to make things look easy!
— Anonymous
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
— Robert Heinlein
I finally got it all together but I forgot where I put it.
— Steven Wright
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
— John W. Raper
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
— Ambrose Bierce
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing.
— Robert Benchley
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else — we are the busiest people in the…
— Eric Hoffer
Many a false step was made by standing still.
— Fortune Cookie
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
— Michel de Montaigne
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
— Blaise Pascal
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
— Bill Watterson
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
Knock, and He'll open the door. Vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He'll raise you to the…
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two…
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
— Nelson DeMille
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
Discipline equals freedom.
— Jocko Willink
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
— Neil Gaiman