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posted by Staff, on 25 march 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

posted by Staff, on 24 march 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (War & Peace)

There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

posted by Staff, on 24 march 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Mark Twain

posted by Staff, on 23 march 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies, Habit)

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

posted by Staff, on 23 march 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

Don't let anyone tell you what you are ever, that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in.

Pete Wentz

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