Famous phrases and sayings.

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When poor people act crazy they are called insane but when wealthy people act crazy in comparison they are called eccentric. -Anonymous

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” - Genghis Kahn.

“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” - Genghis Kahn

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• Even the stoic attitude and manly virtue amounts to this -- that one must maintain and assert himself against the world; and the ethics of the Stoics (their only science, since they could tell nothing about the spirit but how it should behave towards the world, and of nature (physics only this, that the wise man must assert himself against it) is not a doctrine of the spirit, but only a doctrine of the repelling of the world and of self-assertion against the world. And this consists in "imperturbabiltiy and equanimity of life," and so in most explicit Roman virtue. - Stirner, Max

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• All wisdom of the ancients is the science of the world, all wisdom of the moderns is the science of God.- Stirner, Max

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And on the pedestal these words appear,"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings! Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear is the mind killer -Herbert, Frank

"Inquiring minds need to know."

-PBS
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"delicious cake

must have"

-chan
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"...the terrible truth of existence...."

The Birth of Tragedy
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"Since I became a reader of lofty books, I have become a defender of lop-sided causes."

-Attributed to Voltaire by the lazy-eyed dwarf who told it me.

" I found the most perfect beautiful woman I could want no more, she's deaf and dumb and over sexed not to mention she owns a liqour store."

- Anonymous


"Whoever said money can't buy happiness obviously has never had any money."

-Anonymous


"Whoever said money can't buy love obviously has never had any money since there are plenty of gold digging women who would get on their hands and feet in submission saying I love you for a frequent couple hundred bucks or two."

-Anonymous


"All women are hookers and all men are pimps. It's the classic relationship dynamic.

And just like that every hooker needs it's pimp as every pimp needs it's hooker."

-Anonymous

Niccolo Machiavelli

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.


Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.


One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

"They know that you're more dangerous sober...."

-Malcolm X
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"The sky is falling."

-Chicken Little

"Want to know more?"

Starship Troopers (1997)

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"Say all that you know, and say it without reserve."

- Mao, On Coalition Government, paraphrasing a Chinese proverb

"Is not man everywhere the slave of laws? and at once thsi is so, does that not mean he is everywhere in chains" - Marquis De Sade teasing guess who

"Voluptuousness can tolerate no inhibitions - it attains its zenith only by shattering them all" - Marquis De Sade

"A man with much intellect, much power or much money cannot possibly amuse himself in the way everybody else does." - Marquis De Sade

"we almost always emply the laws of our government as our compass for dtermining right and wrong, just and unjust." - Marquis De Sade

"I have gained this by philosophy - that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law" - Aristotle

"Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same" - Michel Foucault

Dear imagination,

What I especially like about you is that you do not forgive.

- Andre Breton

But where am I now? And how can I separate this deserted cafe from that room in my past? I don't know any longer whether I'm living or remembering. The beams from the lighthouse are here. And the Arab stands in front of me telling me that he is going to close. I have to leave. I no longer want to make such dangerous descents. It is true, as I take a last look at the bay and its light, that what wells up in me is not the hope of better days but a serene and primitive indifference to everything and to myself. But I must break this too limp and easy curve. I need my lucidity. Yes, everything is simple. It's men who complicate things. Don't let them tell us any stories. Don't let them say about the man condemned to death: "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They're going to chop his head off." It may seem like nothing. But it does make a little difference. There are some people who prefer to look their destiny straight in the eye.

Albert Camus, Between Yes and No