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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.: Bobcat Goldthwaite
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.: Robert Anton Wilson
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!: Aphra Behn
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.: Brian Adams
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Life is just one damned thing after another.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.: Frank A. Clark
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.: John le Carre (1931 - )
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)