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- Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816), The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed)
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- Strike the tent.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), last words, 12 October 1870.
- I have tried so hard to do the right.
- Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), last words, 1908.
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
- A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
- Eric Sloane
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