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- The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson
- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
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