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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
*Voltaire

“The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.”
*George Carlin

“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
*Maya Angelou

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
*Socrates

“It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain.”
*Mark Twain

“Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.”
*H.L. Mencken

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
*Erica Jong

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
*Plutarch

“It will contribute towards one’s object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.”
*Aristotle

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”
*Bertrand Russell

Originally posted 2008-08-11 02:54:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter