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- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
- There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
- Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
- I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
- Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
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