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- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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