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- Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 9/18/90
- The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), "Winter of Artifice"
- "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
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