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"What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun? One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays."

Ecclesiastes 1:3-4

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

John Maynard Keynes

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

"That will not be necessary" Bill from True Blood in reference to a number of subjects.

I'm a fan of Bertrand Russel. But I think I'll use two of my favourites from my Grandad-
"There's two lazy s****es in Ballygillane, and that fether's the two of 'em."

"If there was work in the bed, that fether'd sleep on the floor."

"Excellent!" wayne from wayne's world

"Victorious warriors win first, and then go to war. Defeated warriors go to war, and then seek to win."
- Sun Tzu

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."
- Native American Saying

"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.' Nothing beside remains."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword."
- The Bible, Matthew

"If music be the food of love, play on."
- William Shakespeare

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
- Ali ibn Abi-Talib

"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word."
- Al Capone

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."
- Henry Ford

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara

"As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or to at least do no harm."
- Hippocrates

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
- Steve Wozniak

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
- Douglas Adams

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."
- B.F. Skinner

I'm sure you've heard at least a few of these, but I really like them. All of them are various technology quotes from Civilization IV.

"There's daggers in mens smiles" Macbeth, Hamlet

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." Niccolo Machiavelli