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- Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule
- How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas
- A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
- Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
- George Iles
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