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- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
- Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
- In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
- Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
- What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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