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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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Alfred E. Wiggam
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )
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