Thought Provoking Quotes

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

George Friedman

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Living in peace has transformative power!

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you’re going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

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The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

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By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

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Some people will hate you for not loving them.

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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

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Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

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Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

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The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

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Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

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Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

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Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

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Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

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Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

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