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- She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
- Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie (1888 - 1964), "A Texan in England", 1945
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