"Borrowed wit is the poorest wit."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Imitation Quotes #Wit Quotes

“You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.”
“I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.”
“There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.”
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
“People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn't feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.”
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.”
“I have to be honest and say members of both political parties have contributed to de-legitimization of the process. Even President Barack Obama when he was a senator, contributed to it, in the sense of voting against a well-qualified individual because he disagreed with the view. Again, that's the prerogative of the senators. They're allowed to express their views on any basis.”
“My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.”

Source : "Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader" by Tanya Schevitz, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2010.

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