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- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain In Eruption
- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
- Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
- I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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