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- Man tends to treat all opinions as principles.
- Herbert Agar
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
- The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- You can only predict things after they've happened.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
- Roberta Wohlstetter
- The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
- He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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