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- Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
- Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
- Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
- Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
- Larry Gelbart
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