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- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
- Edwin P. Whipple
- What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
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