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Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.: G.H. Hardy, in _A Mathematician's Apology_
When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.: Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.: Rita Mae Brown
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.: Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), in Symposium
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.: William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them.: Jerry Garcia, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.: Lin Yutang
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

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