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Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.