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- Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
- Hebrew Proverb
- Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
- Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
- Honduran Proverb
- Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
- Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), New York Times, October 19, 1931
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