"It's either make your insides tingle or cure cancer, DR. And you don't know shit about cancer."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are."
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
"I'm not stuck up... awesome people just seem stuck up."
"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes the need of the public."
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs."
"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
"The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
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