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- 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 - )
- I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
- Claire Sargent, on women candidates, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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