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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.: Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
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Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)

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