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- The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty (1937 - )
- This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
- Robert Redford (1937 - )
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )
- I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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