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- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
- The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
- Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
- Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
- J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
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