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- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
- In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
- Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
- There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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