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"Solutions are not the answer."
-- Richard Nixon
Real love stories never have endings.
-- Richard Bach
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
-- Richard Nixon
I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.
-- Richard Moss
"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon
What are we to make of a system that blames us for failing to procreate while refusing us custody of our children? That perpetuates the myth that we are weaklings while denying us the right to serve in the military? That regards us as incapable of forming stable relationships while forbidding us to marry?
-- Richard Goldstein (in the "Gay Life 1991" segment of The Village Voice)
There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear.
-- Richard Le Gallienne
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
-- Richard Rodriguez
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
-- Richard Harkness
"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."
-- Adam Richardson
"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)
[A] thing is symmetrical if there is something we can do to it so that after we have done it, it looks the same as it did before.
-- Richard Feynman
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.
-- Richard P. Brennan
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, haberdashers don't haberdash, hammers don't ham, and humdingers don't humding.
-- Richard Lederer (Crazy English)
Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.
-- Sandra Bernhard
The problem isn't that the victim can't fight, the problem is that they have to. Saying that self-defense classes are the answer to gay bashers is like saying that it would be good if the government stopped prosecuting rape cases and used the money saved to hand out free mace.
-- Richard Caley
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
-- Abbie Hoffman ("Steal this Book")
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.
-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
-- Albert Einstein
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein
"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
-- Edward Gibbon
Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't ask "why" unless you're not disappointed with answers like "I don't know."
-- Andrew Walenstein
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-- Barry Goldwater
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
"A hard man is good to find."
-- Mae West
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
-- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
-- Albert Einstein
'Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.'
-- Natalie Goldberg
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
-- Albert Einstein
"There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone."
-- Gloria Steinem
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
-- Albert Einstein