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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.: Freeman Dyson (1923 - )
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), 1983
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.: William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.: Alan Corenk
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Invention is the mother of necessity.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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The computer is a moron.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.: Vida D. Scudder
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999