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- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Speech, May 30, 1884
- The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
- Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
- No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.
- John Le Carre (1931 - ), One of the George Smiley books
- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
- Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
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