Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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-- Jean de La Fontaine By Region
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Gandhi By Region
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luggage.
-- Mark Russell I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Steve Bluestone By Region
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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-- Baudelaire By Region All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
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-- Socrates By Region
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-- Flannery O'Connor By Region By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea By Region
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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-- Albert Einstein I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Region Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau By Region
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-- Susan Ertz Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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-- Phillip Brooks "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx By Region
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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- Plato In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Anne S By Region What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith Never practice two vices at once.
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