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- 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)
- 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
- People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.
- Johathan Miller
- Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
- Unknown
- It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
- Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- What a time! What a civilization!
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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