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Egotism

 

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The average person thinks he isn't.

- Father Larry Lorenzoni

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

- Lucille S. Harper

Enemies

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

- General George Patton (1885-1945)

Events

 

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.

- Werner Heisenberg

Evil

 

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

- Mae West (1892-1980)

Extravagance

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

- e e cummings (1894-1962)