Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Athletics "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Athletics "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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by a little physical antipathy.
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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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