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- All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943), in R. E. Drennan, Wit's End (1973)
- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), (attributed)
- If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
- John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
- Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
- In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory)
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer
- To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
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