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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Mark Twain The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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- A. J. Liebling Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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-- Calvin Coolidge Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Shopping
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-- Elayne Boosler A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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-- D. H. Lawrence It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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-- Anatole France Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley Shopping Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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-- Anonymous Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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- Friedrich Nietzsche I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- John Randolph The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Shopping Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Shopping
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Winston Churchill My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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