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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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-- Harry S. Truman Movies
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
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- Mark Twain Movies
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The west wasn't won on salad.
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Movies I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
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-- Winston Churchill Movies
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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