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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.: Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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Every artist was first an amateur.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!: Belva Plain
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You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005