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- Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
- In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
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