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- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ...
- Anthony Chevins
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- E.B. White
- War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts.
- Norm (Cheers)
- I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant.
- Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive
- A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
- Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13
- We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations. The second error is that of the Lewis Carroll's Walrus who grouped shoes with ships and sealing wax, and cabbages with kings...
- R. Abel, Man is the Measure, New York: Free Press, 1976
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