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- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres
Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers. - Keith Preston
- For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole."
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
- Desmond Morris
- To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
- Herbert J. Muller
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
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