Don’t get even, get odd.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me. – John Powell

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint Exupery

I wish to propose for the reader’s favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. – Bertrand Russell

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. – Mark Twain

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire

Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it? – Daniel Webster

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. – H. L. Mencken

I have always been on the side of the heretics against those who burned them because the heretics so often turned out to be right… Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow