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- All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943), in R. E. Drennan, Wit's End (1973)
- If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
- John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
- Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer
- To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Sirens of Titan
- By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
- War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
- Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
- Marie Beyon Ray
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