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- Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
- Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself-and how little I deserve it.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- You can only predict things after they've happened.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
- C. W. Leadbeater
- The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
- Roberta Wohlstetter
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