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- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"
- If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
- Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
- We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester.
- Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie
- Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.'
- On the menu at Al's Oasis in Oacama, South Dakota
- Whenever you fall, pick up something
- Oswald Theodore Avery
- Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Models are to be used, not believed.
- H. Theil `Principles of Econometrics'
- I'm a man of the world, Andy. Why, I've even been to Raleigh!
- Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith Show)
- Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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