Deep quotes you heard or made up?

We all have the same amount of time 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. Unless you are born in the states in summer. Then you get an extra hour in the fall that winter people do not. Unless you die in the winter, in which case you gave back your extra hour.
 
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence" - Charles Bukowski
Seen that basic concept attributed to more names than I can remember to count - from Robert Browning to Mark Twain to WInston Churchill to Will Rogers, and seemingly everybody in between.

The worst part is how much truth it contains.
 
“Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn’t last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.”
Mankind has grown strong through eternal struggle and shall only perish through eternal peace.

Thot you'd like that from the famousist Austrian.
 
Mankind has grown strong through eternal struggle and shall only perish through eternal peace.

Thot you'd like that from the famousist Austrian.
Just as the chick in the shell and the butterfly in the cocoon. struggle is a requirement for development.
 
Just as the chick in the shell and the butterfly in the cocoon. struggle is a requirement for development.
Stalin had some good ones too. A single death a tragedy, a million a statistic.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

Nothing from pinochet or Kim jong Duh, however.
 
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