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- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
- I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
- One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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