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- Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
- J. Bartlett Brebner
- Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance. - Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
- In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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