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I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.
 
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
 
For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
 
Better to be disliked than pitied.
 
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
 
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. 
 
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
 
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself.
 
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.
 
There is no false sensation.
 
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.
 
Love can surmount any obstacle, except the one that marks its end.
 
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
 
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
 
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
 
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. 
 
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?
 
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
 
Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. 
 
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.
 
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