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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
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Jean Kerr
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
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Miss Piggy
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
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Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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