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- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
- We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
- Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
- If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lost Road
- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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