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- Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. 
 - Cosino DeGregrio
 
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.  
 - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
 
- Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.  
 - Peggy Noonan (1950 -  )
 
- Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 
 - Zhou En Lai (1898 - 1976)
 
- Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. 
 - Chinese Proverb
 
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know. 
 - Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
 
- A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. 
 - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
 
- If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. 
 - Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Encyclopaedia Britannica
 
- Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. 
 - John Locke (1632 - 1704)
 
- Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. 
 - Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
 
 
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