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- Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
- A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
- Jane Caminos
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- No human thing is of serious importance.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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