"Sharing great wisdom in the company of fools may lead them to take you as one of their own."

Wakcher, Michael on wisdom   

"A physicist's journey starts with putting two numbers together, and ends with taking the Universe apart."

Wakcher, Michael on physics   

"The sweetness of victory is undermined only by its lack of nutritional content."

Wakcher, Michael on victory   

"A lie is just the truth masquerading as bullshit."

Wakcher, Michael on lies and lying   

"To please a woman is to say 'please' to a woman...but at other times not."

Wakcher, Michael on women   

"With enough verbs and prepositions, anything can happen."

Wakcher, Michael on words   

"If all complaints had to be accompanied by the submission of a delicious sandwich then fewer people would voice them while more would be willing to listen."

Wakcher, Michael on complaints and complaining
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"The world would be a much more logical, decision-oriented place if we renamed those breakfast waffles "Ergos"."

Torley on   

"Language is a dangerous tool, that when misused, can result in nonsense."

Wakcher, Michael on language   

"I urge everyone against choosing their dying words ahead of time. I said mine years ago and now I look like quite the fool."

Wakcher, Michael on death   

"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Franklin, Benjamin on love
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on anger
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