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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.: Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's involvement in "The Avengers" (interview, Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1987)
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.: Graham Greene, _The Heart of the Matter_
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Off days" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller.: Gary Larson
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

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