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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)
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Do or do not. There is no try.: Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.: Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.: Mike Ditka (1939 - )
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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.: Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643)
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)