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- All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.
- Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
- He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- Tortoise: But we must be careful in combining sentences. For instance, you'd grant that "Politicians lie" is true, wouldn't you?
Achilles: Who could deny it? Tortoise: Good. Likewise, "Cast-iron sinks" is a valid utterance, isn't it? Achilles: Indubitably. Tortoise: Then, putting them together, we get "Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks" ... - Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid"
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Martin H. Fischer
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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