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- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
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