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- TIL J.-C. Juncker, president of the EU commission, once said :"We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/jean-claude_juncker 21 comments europe
- Erwin Schrödinger : References made to Vedanta philosophy. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/erwin_schr%C3%B6dinger 9 comments india
- TIL that Maradona, when asked who was the best player he had ever saw playing, said "It is between Romario and Van Basten". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/romario#about 28 comments soccer
- "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." -Leo Tolstoy http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/leo_tolstoy#the_kingdom_of_god_is_within_you_.281894.29 3 comments politics
- "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." Law Prof. Testifying on Gay Marriage, runs for Senate and passes law legalizing it in Maryland. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/jamie_raskin 174 comments politics
- Selected Quotes from Warren Buffett http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/warren_buffett 3 comments investing
- "[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." --Charles Darwin http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/charles_darwin#the_descent_of_man_.281871.29 75 comments science
- Did Glenn Beck just base his whole program on a misattributed and misinterpreted George Washington quote? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington#Misattributed 4 comments politics
- "I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail." --Harry S. Truman http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/harry_s._truman 3 comments history
- “No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wrong me, whom I have not repaid in full.” —Lucius Cornelius Sulla, self-written epitaph http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/lucius_cornelius_sulla 25 comments history
- "If you're going to read this, don't bother" - Famous opening lines wiki http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Opening_lines 3 comments books
- Stephen Hawking's view on free will http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/stephen_hawking#black_holes_and_baby_universes_and_other_essays_.281993.29 44 comments philosophy
- "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future," http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein 5 comments politics
- TIL James Joyce's last words were: "Does nobody understand?" http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Joyce 17 comments books
- How much has politics changed in a 100 years? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt 9 comments politics
- George Carlin - Always more relevant. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin 3 comments politics
- "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck" and other Frederick Douglass quotes. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/frederick_douglass 8 comments philosophy
- Frank Zappa Quotes: "I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country with a WORKING first amendment." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/frank_zappa 14 comments politics
- "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1941 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/louis_brandeis 61 comments politics
- Oscar Wilde - Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/oscar_wilde 11 comments science
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Seneca http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/seneca_the_younger 9 comments politics
- Aldous Huxley - It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.' http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/aldous_huxley 7 comments reddit.com
- Edward Bernays - The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/edward_bernays 5 comments reddit.com
- "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." - Happy Birthday, George http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/george_washington# 5 comments politics
- John Cleese: "It won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money. They're all nuts." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/john_cleese 170 comments politics
- " Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." - Smedley Butler http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/smedley_butler 9 comments business
- Max Planck - A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/max_planck 14 comments science
- Keynes "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/john_maynard_keynes 694 comments politics
- Thomas Edison on solar energy, 1931: "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/thomas_alva_edison 130 comments reddit.com
- Alexis de Tocqueville - As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/alexis_de_tocqueville 11 comments politics
- "(if Al Gore won) the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched... I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!" James Carville http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/james_carville#cite_note-0 4 comments politics
- Introducing the Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/richard_feynman#quotations_about_feynman 3 comments science
- "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/henry_kissinger 19 comments reddit.com
- Don't let them fool you: THIS is Conservativism was and ought to be, not what Bush or Ann Coulter does or says... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/barry_goldwater 4 comments politics
- The lesson of FISA: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/leonard_h._courtney 5 comments politics
- "…the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it." - Linus Torvalds controversial quotes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/linus_torvalds 61 comments programming
- "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/dwight_d._eisenhower?reddit 150 comments reddit.com
- "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/thucydides 62 comments reddit.com
- Steven Wrightisms [humour] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/steven_wright 15 comments reddit.com