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- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
- W. H. Thompson
- Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
- Henrik Tikkanen
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
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