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- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
- Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti
- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
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