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- “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” — Hanlon's razor
- 「學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。」 or “To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.” — Confucius
- “A good friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying ‘that was fun’.” — American proverb
- “Beer before wine, you'll feel fine. Wine before beer, you'll feel queer.” — English proverb
- “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- “Hakuna matata.” or “Here, there are no worries.” — Swahili proverb
- “Fortes fortuna adiuvat.” or “Fortune favours the brave.” — Publius Terentius Afer
- 「见义不为，无勇也。」 or “Seeing what is right and not doing it is cowardice.” — Confucius
- “God invented Kansas for us to look at our lives as we drive through it. Why? Because there is simply nothing better to look at.” — Ryan Hawk
- “Sometimes, when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says ‘you’. After that, I usually feel a lot better and no harm done.” — Jack Handey
- “The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” — Albert Einstein
- “I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” — Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” — Cornelia ten Boom
- “Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.” — American proberb
- “The road to a friend's house is never long.” — Danish proverb
- “If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.” — Proverbs 25:21-22 (NIV)
- “If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.” — Mark Twain
- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein
- “Hi, my name is George, I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents.” — Jason Alexander, “The Opposite”, Seinfeld
- “Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die.” — U2, “Crumbs From Your Table”, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- «Fra il dire e il fare c'e' dimezzo il mare.» or “An ocean lies between what is said and what is done.” — Italian proverb
- “You should be the change that you want to see in the world.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- “Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” — Ecclesiastes 12:12b (NIV)
- “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
- “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” — English proverb
- “If you have to ask, you'll never know.” — Louis Armstrong (when asked to define swing)
- “No one has been left behind in HIV and AIDS. … It is so clear that HIV and AIDS will only go if all of us realise that we have a role to play whether old or young.” — Princess Kasune Zulu
- “Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain
- “God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.” — Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo
- “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- “An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.” — Proverbs 24:26 (NIV)
- “The pen is the tongue of the mind.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C. S. Lewis
- “The desire to know is natural to good men.” — Leonardo da Vinci
- “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “All you need is love.” — John Lennon and Paul McCartney
- “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
- “Variety is the spice of life.” — English proverb
- “There is no way to peace; peace is the way.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.” — Ecclesiastes 9:17-18
- “Love not what you are, but what you may become.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- «Les apparences sont trompeuses.» or “Appearances are deceptive.” — French proverb
- «Liberté, égalité, fraternité.» or “Liberty, equality, brotherhood.” — Motto of the French Republic
- “Empty bag can't stand up.” — Barbadian proverb
- “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.” — Mark Twain
- “Laissez les bons temps rouler.” or “Let the good times roll.” — Cajun proverb
- “I sent a pint of my blood to the Red Cross once. They sent it back.” — Fairy Mae, The Curious Savage
- “שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד׃ ואהבת את יהוה אלהיך בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך ובכל מאדך׃” or “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” — Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)
- “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” — Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- “Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” — C. S. Lewis
- “He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.” — Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo
- “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” — James 1:27 (NIV)
- “Amor vincit omnia.” or “Love conquers all.” — Latin proverb
- “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” — Bob Hope
- “Each one of us is special, and it's because of who we are inside. We're all different, and we all have something to offer our world.” — Fred Rogers
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- “I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.” — Martin Luther
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