So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some … - Tacitus

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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

Tacitus

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

Certain, Doubt, Facts, Obscurity, Precarious, True

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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Gratitude, Men, Ready, Repay, Revenge

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

Character, Completely, History, Law, Position, Proportion

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Corrupt, Freedom, Government, Laws, Peace, War

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Audacity, Crime, Exposed, Political, Politics

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Heart, Inflames, Lust, Passion, Power

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Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Lewis, Old, Swimming, Time, Tuesday, Wife

Pope Pius XI

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church. . . . Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Christian, Dogmas, Expression, Religious, Socialism, Terms

Edward Boyden

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Actually, Computer, Gravity, Kind, Law, Make

George Carlin

And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.

Apparently, Jesus, Mean, Sex, Sin

Steve Wozniak