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- For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), "Eloisa to Abelard"
- You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
- Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
- What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
- A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
- The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
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