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- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh
- The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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