Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?


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There are thousands and thousands of people on the other side of the border, not being fed, babies a...
CLARE SHORT
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It prese...
SOLOMON NORTHUP
Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
ANDREW SOLOMON
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON
My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people&#...
ANDREW SOLOMON
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin...
SOLOMON SCHECHTER
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believ...
ANDREW SOLOMON
You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...
ANDREW SOLOMON
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
SOLOMON SCHECHTER
Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Chris...
SOLOMON SCHIMMEL
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON
No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever rec...
ANDREW SOLOMON
As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together...
SOLOMON ORTIZ
A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
KING SOLOMON