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- Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
- Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
- Carl Becker
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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