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- A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
- Emile Chartier
- I have seen the future and it doesn't work.
- Robert Fulford
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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