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- We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
- W. H. Thompson
- Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris
- An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I bet the human brain is a kludge.
- Marvin Minsky
- My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
- Henrik Tikkanen
- We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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