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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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-- Oscar Wilde Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- Hen Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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-- George Benard Shaw "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Travel Services
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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-- Abraham Maslow Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Gandhi I still live.
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-- Samuel Johnson I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Anatole France "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Travel Services And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Travel Services The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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-- George Bernard Shaw "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
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-- Anonymous Travel Services "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "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) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
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