Human Nature

"A man desires the satisfaction of his desire;
a woman desires the condition of desiring."
- Pam Houston

"Somebody help me! I'm being spontaneous!"
- Truman Burbank

"What is moral is what you feel good after.
What is immoral is what you feel bad after."
- Ernest Hemingway

"What is the chief end of man? - to get rich.
In what way? - dishonesty if he can; honesty if he must."
- Mark Twain

"The Olympic spirit, to me, is to beat the rest of the athletes of the world,
not to live with them."
- John Stockton

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"
- HL Mencken

"Civilized man thinks about his problems, or so he'd like to think;
primitive man dances about his problems."
- Harry Smith

"For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years.
This gives me great hope for the human race."
- Harlan Ellison

"I've been called a fascist, elitist, techno-slave, disconnected from reality, and much worse. But when I am "accused" of learning under my own power and this is somehow hurting other people by pointing out their inability/unwillingness to embrace what has become a large part of everyones universe, I cannot help but fear for the worst for the whole race."
- Tom O'Neil in the Scary Devil Monastery

"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."

"You see I am very stupid. I don't understand or talk well. I take it easy every day.
I am like an idiot. Be like this every day, and then you'll look young."
- Chow Yun-Fat


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