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- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night
- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
- Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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