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- It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
- David Frye impersonating Nixon
- Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- She ain't my mother, so I ain't gonna get her nothin'.
- Lee Trevino on a Mother's Day gift for his wife
- My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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