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- The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- Traveling there was really boring so I headed for the ditch. It was a rough ride but I met more interesting people there.
- Neil Young
- The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
- Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
- One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
- Swedish Proverb
- Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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