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- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Themes and Variations", 1950
- Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
- History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
- The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- You see, but you do not observe.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892
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