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- I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
- 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)
- In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
- My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
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