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- A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
- The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
- Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
- Bill Vaughan
- Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
- Eric Ambler
- Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards
- If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
- The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman
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