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- The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
- Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard
- The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb
- Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Will Cuppy
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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