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- There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
- Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
- Lisa Alther
- "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel (30 BC - 9 AD)
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956), Winnie-the-Pooh
- Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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