"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

Pragmatism, Honesty, Absurdity, Irony, Justice

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"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

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"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."

Ilona Andrews, American Writer

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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

Lois Greiman, American Author

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"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Pragmatism, Survival, Conflict, Humor

"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Pragmatism, Success, Opportunity, Money, Initiative

"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Grub first, then ethics."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"You're gonna sit down. You're gonna shut up. And by the grace of God Almighty, I ain't gonna kill you."

Authority

"In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life."

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"I don't need no PMS. I can bitch under my own steam."

Humor

"Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death."

Knowledge

"I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet."

Peace

"Dating is like nightfall--there's got to be a mourning after."

Heartbreak

"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."

Risk

"Trust is important to any relationship and easier to come by if you get a picture of a guy's wife buck naked."

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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

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"Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either."

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