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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. Sydney Smith |
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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. Peter Borden |
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel |
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw |
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert |
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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 |
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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show" |
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde |
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt |
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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 |
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano |
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Jean Giraudoux |
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia |
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In a mad world only the mad are sane. Akira Kurosawa |
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball |
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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 |
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The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. Michael Friedman |
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. William James (1842 - 1910) |
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal |
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