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Some things have to be believed to be seen.: Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.: John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910
In love, one and one are one.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Underpromise; overdeliver.: Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
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Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.: Blore's Razor
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.: Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.: John Lancaster Spalding
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)