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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
-Carl Sagan
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
-Ellen Goodman
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
-Rene Descartes
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-Alan Kay
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis
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