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- A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
- George Iles
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
- Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
- Steven Pearl
- The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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