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Everybody believes in something and everybody

  Image of Frank Zappa created by ChatGPT Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill Silence is more musical than any song. - Christina Rossetti To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - Jo...

Glory is fleeting...

  Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. --Napoleon Bonaparte A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. --Wayne Gretzky The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. --Robert Frost You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. --Groucho Marx I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher The truth is rarely pure and never simple. --Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward Live forever or die in the attempt. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 READ MORE INTERESTING