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- In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
- It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)
- The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
- Peter De Vries
- The days of the digital watch are numbered.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
- H. E. Martz
- It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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