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“Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. [lord acton]

"Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Excerpt from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. - greek saying

And so it goes.

-Kurt Vonnegut

The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra. - indian saying

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain

ironic saying- "Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him." - highly ironic Israeli saying

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

-H.P. Lovecraft

Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark. - Portuguese saying

"In the 1930s an anthropologist named Paul Radin first described it as "shamans being half mad," shamans being "healed madmen." This fits exactly. It's the shamans who are moving separate from everyone else, living alone, who talk with the dead, who speak in tongues, who go out with the full moon and turn into a hyena overnight, and that sort of stuff. It's the shamans who have all this metamagical thinking. When you look at traditional human society, they all have shamans. What's very clear, though, is they all have a limit on the number of shamans. That is this classic sort of balanced selection of evolution. There is a need for this subtype — but not too many."

~Robert Sapolsky

Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps. - Yugoslav saying

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. - slovak saying

Come any closer Hoy, and I'll kill you.

-Outlaw Harry Tracy to Rancher Valentine Hoy. Tracy shot him.