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- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
- Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
- If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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