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- In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
- Rabbi Seymour Siegel
- Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
- Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 8/11/89
- We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 9/22/90
- You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1931
- Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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