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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.: George Jessel
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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