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- The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
- 1. Never tell everything at once.
- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
- 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
- Grabel's Law
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law
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