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41 You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. Sydney Smith
42 Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.  Peter Borden
43 The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.  Casey Stengel
44 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
45 The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert
46 If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
47 Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?  Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
48 Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde
49 We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.  Frank Tibolt
50 The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.  Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde
52 No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.  Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
53 The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.  Jean Giraudoux
54 Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.  Jerry Garcia
55 In a mad world only the mad are sane. Akira Kurosawa
56 The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  Lucille Ball
57 The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman
58 The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. Michael Friedman
59 A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.  William James (1842 - 1910)
60 I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal
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