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Altruism and Cynicism
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In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. Allen Smith, Let the Crabgrass Grow, in Altruism and Cynicism
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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