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''Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.'' -Friedrich Nietzsche

''You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.'' -Socrates

''VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.'' -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

''Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.'' -Marilyn Manson, I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement

''Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.''-Percy Bysshe Shelley

''When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.''-Bruce Lee

''PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.'' -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

''What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.'' -Walt Whitman

''The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing.'' -Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

''INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and diverse ways to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter. "Your prompt decision to attack," said General Grant on a certain occasion to General Gordon Granger, "was admirable; you had but five minutes to make up your mind in." "Yes, sir," answered the victorious subordinate, "it is a great thing to know exactly what to do in an emergency. When in doubt whether to attack or retreat I never hesitate a moment -- I toss up a copper." "Do you mean to say that's what you did this time?" "Yes, General; but for Heaven's sake don't reprimand me: I disobeyed the coin."''-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary