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- Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
- Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
- It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
- You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today.
- Bizarro (comic strip)
- War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
- Molly Wiest
- America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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