Quotations
Collected by Donald Gudehus
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Jerry Lamon Falwell (Aug. 11, 1933, Lynchburg, VA - ), American religious broadcaster
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The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be
mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the
gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle,
the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize
America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen'.
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Jerry Falwell, as said on "The 700 Club" on Sept. 13, a TV program hosted by
Pat Robertson, in reference to the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and airliners which occured on Sept. 11, 2001,
and to which Robertson replied: "Well, I totally concur, and the problem
is we have adopted that aganda at the highest levels of our government."
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Michael Faraday (Sept. 22, 1791, Newington Butts (London), England - Aug. 25, 1867, Hampton Court, England), English chemist and physicist
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
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Michael Faraday
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Work, Finish, Publish.
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Michael Faraday, Faraday's Slogan
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David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801, Knoxville, Tennessee - Portsmouth, NH, August 14, 1870),
First Admiral of the United Staes Navy
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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
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David Farragut, said while rallying his men to victory during the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864
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Timothy Ferris, (August 29, 1944, Miami, FL - ), American journalist and science writer
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If the Universe was a house, astronomers all this time have only been
'observing' dust bunnies in the front hallway.
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Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang, Chapter 5, The Black Taj
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Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918, Brooklyn, NY - Feb. 15, 1988, Los Angeles, CA), American theoretical
physicist and Nobel Laureate
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must
settle for a reduced understanding.
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Richard Feynman
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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled.
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Richard Feynman
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Richard Feynman
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Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.
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Richard Feynman, speaking to Kip Thorne about the physicist John Archibald Wheeler
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest
person to fool.
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Richard Feynman
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the
campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
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Richard Feynman
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We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries...
The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws
of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous,
but this excitement will have to go.
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Richard Feynman, in The Character of Physical Law, 1965
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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished
as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you
had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner,
what you actually did in order to get to do the work.
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Richard Feynman
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Richard Feynman, found written on his blackboard when he died, 1988
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What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the "why"? It does not do harm
to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is
the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of
the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of
Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere
of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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Richard Feynman
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W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) (Apr. 9, 1879 or Jan. 29, 1880, Philadelphia, PA -
Dec. 25, 1946, Pasadena, CA), American comedian and actor
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore
always carry a small snake.
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W. C. Fields
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Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.
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W. C. Fields
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Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.
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W. C. Fields
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Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch?
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W. C. Fields
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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W. C. Fields
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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
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W. C. Fields
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I like children. If they're properly cooked.
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W. C. Fields
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use
being a damned fool about it.
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W. C. Fields
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Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they
always come out tender.
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W. C. Fields
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...more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
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W. C. Fields
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Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but
food and water for days
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W. C. Fields
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Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
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W. C. Fields
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The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.
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W. C. Fields
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the
situation.
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W. C. Fields
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers
murdered their mother with an axe.
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W. C. Fields
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Harvey Fierstein (June 6, 1954, Bensonhurst, NY - ), American actor and playwright
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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Harvey Fierstein
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Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956, Beverly Hills, CA - ), American author and movie actress
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Instant gratification takes too long.
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Carrie Fisher
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Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Irving Fisher, 1929
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (Sept. 24, 1896, St. Paul, MN - Dec. 21, 1940, Hollywood, CA),
American novelist and short-story writer
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up, 1945
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up, 1945
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Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up,1945
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western
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Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821, Rouen, France - May 8, 1880, Croisset, France), French novelist
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Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your
work.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908, Mayfair, London, England - August 12, 1964, Canterbury, Kent, England),
British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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Ian Fleming, in the "Sunday Times" (London), Octber 9, 1966
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Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
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Ian Fleming, said by the character Auric Goldfinger in "Goldfinger", 1959
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Marechal (Field Marshal) Ferdinand Foch (Oct. 2, 1851, Tarbes, France - Mar. 20, 1929),
Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre (1907 - 1911),
Last commander-in-chief of the Allied armies in WWI (1918)
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Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
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Marechal Foch
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It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general.
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Marechal Foch
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Glen Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford) (May 1, 1916, Sainte-Christine, Quebec,Canada - ),
Canadian-American actor
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If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed
and it's slower'.
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Glen Ford
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863, Dearborn, MI - Apr. 7, 1947, Fairlane, Dearborn, MI),
American engineer and auto manufacturer
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A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
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Henry Ford
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Henry Ford
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History is bunk.
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Henry Ford
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If it doesn't add value, it's waste.
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Henry Ford
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Anneliese (Anne) Marie Frank (June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany - March 12, 1945, Bergen-Belsen, Celle, Germany),
A young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust
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I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.
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Anne Frank, in her diary
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Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving]
a free society.
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Felix Frankfurter
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Benjamin Franklin (Jan. 17, 1706, Boston, MA - Apr. 17, 1790, Philadelphia, PA), American inventor and statesman
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A light purse is a heavy curse.
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Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A slip of the foot, you may soon recover. But a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Benjamin Franklin
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All cats look gray in the dark.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Don't throw stones at your neighbor's windows if you live in a glass house.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made
of.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Fish and visitors smell after three days.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Benjamin Franklin
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
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Benjamin Franklin
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God helps them that help themselves.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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He who scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
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Benjamin Franklin
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Benjamin Franklin
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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He's a fool who makes his doctor his heir.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Here Skugg lies snug as a bug in a rug.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues
have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to George Washington, March 5, 1780
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I am in the prime of senility.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of
the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead & rotten,
either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
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Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
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Benjamin Franklin
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It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Love your neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to M. Leroy, 1789
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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Remember that time is money.
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Benjamin Franklin, in Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748
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The sting of gossip is the truth of it.
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Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773, and also in his
Historical Review, 1759
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Think of these things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Those things that hurt instruct.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack
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'Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
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Benjamin Franklin
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore.
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Benjamin Franklin, Maxim prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanack
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We must all hang together or, assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud (Sigmund Freud) (May 6, 1856, Frieberg, Moravia (now Príbor, Czech Republic) - Sept. 23, 1939, London England),
Austrian psychologist
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Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is
attached to all our knowledge.
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Sigmund Freud, in letter to Princess Marie Bonaparte
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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Sigmund Freud
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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
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Sigmund Freud
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Zuweilen eine Zigarre ist nur eine Zigarre.
(Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.)
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Sigmund Freud, responding to a comment about him smoking a cigar.
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Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912, Brooklyn, NY - November 16, 2006, San Francisco, CA), American Nobel Laureate economist
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Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
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Milton Friedman, in Essays in Positive Economics, 1953
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There's nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Milton Friedman
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David B. Frohnmayer (July 9, 1940, Medford, OR -), 15th President of the University of Oregon
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It is better to speak out against hateful language rather than allow it to fester
silently or to create doubt as to our central values.
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David Frohnmayer, in a letter to University of Oregon faculty and staff concerning statements made
at Pacific Forum speeches, April, 2008, and reported in the Register Guard, April 18, 2008
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Robert Lee Frost (Mar. 26, 1874, San Francisco, CA - Jan. 29, 1963, Boston, MA), American poet
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Robert Frost
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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Robert Frost, in Fire and Ice, 1923
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They would not find me changed from him they knew
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Robert Frost
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Two paths diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that
has made all the difference.
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Robert Frost, in The Road Less Traveled
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Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895, Milton, MA - July 1, 1983, Los Angeles, CA),
American inventor, architect, and engineer
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Dare to be naive
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Buckminster Fuller, in Moral of the Work
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There is enough for everyone.
People think that there isn't enough,
so they get as much as they can,
so many people don't have enough.
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Buckminster Fuller
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You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy
to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Buckminster Fuller
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John Kenneth Galbraith (Oct. 15, 1908, Iona Station, Ontario, Canada - ), American economist
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might
annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that
such people rarely read.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Galen (Claudius Galenus) (circa 131, Pergamum (modern-day Bergama, Greece) - circa 210, Rome, Italy),
Greek physician, scientist, and writer
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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from
this as do unfamiliar terms.
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Galen
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Galileo Galilei (Feb. 15, 1564, Pisa, Italy - Jan. 8, 1642, Arcetri, Italy), Italian astronomer,
mathematician and father of experimental physics
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I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo
their use.
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Galileo Galilei
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In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Galileo Galilei
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It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and
nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice
can supress.
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Galileo Galilei, commenting on his discoveries
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If anyone is allowed to imagine whatever he pleases and someone says that
the Moon is surrounded by transparent invisible crystal, I shall willingly
grant this provided that, with equal courtesy, I be allowed to say that this
crystal has on its outer surface a great number of enormous mountains, thirty
times as high as terrestrial ones, which, being of diaphanous substance, is
invisible. The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated
nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is a purely arbitrary fiction that puts
nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiction?
One might equally well define Earth to include the atmosphere out to the top of the
highest mountain and then say 'the earth is perfectly spherical.'
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Galileo Galilei, to Gallanzone Gallanzoni, Cardinal Joyeuse's secretary, responding to Galileo's opponent
Lodovico delle Colombe, who while admitting that the surface of the moon looked rugged, maintained that
it was actually quite smooth and spherical as Aristotle had said, reconciling the two ideas by saying that the moon was covered
with a smooth transparent material through which mountains and craters inside it could be discerned. July 16, 1611
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To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations
is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them to not see what
they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find
what they do not discover.
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Galileo Galilei
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Indira Gandhi (November 19, 1917, Allahabad, India - October 31, 1984, New Delhi, India), Indian politician and Prime Minister of India (1966 - 1977) and (1980 - 1984)
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.
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Indira Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) (Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar,India - Jan. 30, 1948, Delhi, India),
Indian Hindu political and spiritual leader and proponent of nonviolent protest
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An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
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Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest
weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Bill Gates, American software entrepeneur
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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Bill Gates, 1981
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Andre' Gide (November 22, 1869, Paris, France - February 19, 1951, Paris, France),
French writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1947
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Andre' Gide
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Kahlil Gibran
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Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
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Kahlil Gibran
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Gail Godwin (June 18, 1937, Birmingham, AL - ), American author and novelist
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Gail Godwin
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Hermann Goering (Jan. 12, 1893, Rosenheim, Germany - Oct. 15, 1946, Nuremberg, Germany),
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe and Deputy Führer of the Third Reich
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Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm
want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come
back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war:
neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is
understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament,
or a communist dictatorship.
Gustave M. Gilbert: There is one difference, In a democracy the people have some say in
the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress
can declare wars.
Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
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Hermann Goering, in a conversation between Gustave M. Gilbert (1911 - 1977), a
German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist, on the evening of April 18, 1946,
published in Nuremberg Diary, 1947 by Farrar, Straus & Company and republished in an
expanded edition in 1961.
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Whenever I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my pistol.
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Hermann Goering, similar to a statement earlier made by the playwright Hanns Johst
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Aug. 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Mar. 22, 1832, Weimar, Germany),
German poet
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of
times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they
take root in our personal experience.
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Goethe
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate
them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to
repent every ill-judged outlay.
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Goethe
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what
you feel able to do.
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Goethe
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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
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Goethe
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Genuis is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
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Goethe
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step
from envy to hate.
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Goethe
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught
me anywhere else.
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Goethe
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former
lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search for it.
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Goethe
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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Goethe
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Goethe
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and
a last day.
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Goethe
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the
end of it. Others do just the same with their time.
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Goethe
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National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and
most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Goethe
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Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is
really according to order.
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Goethe
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free.
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Goethe
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Goethe
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Goethe
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
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Goethe
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not
worth knowing, and what is not knowable.
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Goethe
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Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy
billows of the world.
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Goethe
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his
defects and makes up for his failings.
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Goethe
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Goethe
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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from
the world.
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Goethe
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Goethe
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Goethe
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Goethe
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Sidney Goff (1920, Newark, NJ - ), American pharmaceutical researcher
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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
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Thomas Gold, physicist
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For every complex natural phenomenon there is a simple, elegant, compelling, wrong explanation.
Tommy Gold
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Senator Barry Goldwater (Jan. 1, 1909, Phoenix, AZ - May 29, 1998, Paradise Valley, AZ),
United States Senator from Arizona
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Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
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Barry Goldwater
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass.
-
Senator Barry Goldwater, when asked what he thought of Jerry Falwell's suggestion that all good Christians
should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court
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Samuel Goldwyn (1889-1974), American film maker
|
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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Samuel Goldwyn
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
-
Samuel Goldwyn
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Samuel Goldwyn
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Jack Gordon, State Senator from Florida (1972 - 1992)
|
Well, if all regulation is bad; let's start with traffic. Let's take down all the stoplights
and stop signs, and abolish the speed limit, and see what happens
Jack Gordon
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Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist
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Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of
argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for
separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a
self-evident law of nature.
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Stephen Jay Gould, in The Most Unkindest Cut of All, an essay on the
Wannsee Protocol, Natural History, May, 1992.
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Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher'
advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural
selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success
of individuals.
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Stephen Jay Gould, in Spin Doctoring Darwin, Natural History, July, 1995
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Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he is wrong -- and I think I can show, by analyzing his slipshod scholarship and basic misunderstanding of science, that his world is an invention constructed to validate his own private hopes ... Rifkin shows no understanding of the norms and procedures of science: he displays little comprehension of what science is and how scientists work.
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Stephen Jay Gould, in a Discover magazine book review on Rifkin's Algeny, 1985
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Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat
channels of canonical stories.
-
Stephen Jay Gould, in Jim Bowie's Letter & Bill Buckner's Legs,
Natural HIstory, May, 2000
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Billy Graham (William Franklin Graham) (Nov. 7, 1918, Charlotte, NC - ), American Christian evangelist
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Graham: "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain."
Nixon: "You believe that?"
Graham: "Yes, sir."
Nixon: "Oh boy. So do I. I can't ever say that, but I believe it."
Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something."
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Billy Graham, in reference to alleged Jewish influence in the media, from Nixon tapes of early
1972, National Archives
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Thomas Gray (Dec. 26, 1716, Cornhill, London, England - July 30, 1771, Cambridge, England), English poet
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Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melacholy marked him for her own.
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send:
He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.
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Thomas Gray, in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Epitaph
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the Poor.
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Thomas Gray, in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 8
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On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
Some pious drops the closing eye requires;
Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires.
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Thomas Gray, in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 23
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Thomas Gray, in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 9
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Sir Thomas Gresham (circa 1519, London, England - Nov. 21, 1579, London, England), English financier
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Bad money drives out good money.
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Sir Thomas Gresham
This concept was called Gresham's Law by the economist H. D. Macleod in 1858,
but was actually known before Gresham's time. An early mention of the
idea was made by the Greek poet Theognis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC.
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Donald Gudehus (Sept. 13, 1939, Jersey City, NJ - ), American astronomer and composer
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A free society gets what it wants;
a brainwashed society wants what it gets.
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Donald Gudehus, 1966
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An effective counter to the endless succession of zealotry and fanaticism from one
generation to the next, with its consequent ill effects on freedom of expression,
thought, scientific inquiry, and behavior, would be to institute an age of consent for religious indoctrination.
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Donald Gudehus, February, 2004
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A person with too much time on their hands sometimes also has too many words on their tongue.
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Donald Gudehus, June 3, 2007
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At the time of the 9-11 attacks on our country, Jerry Falwell and
Pat Robertson declared that the pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians,
the ACLU, and the People for the American Way helped it happen because
they made God mad. Now that Florida has been hit by four devastating
hurricanes in a row these all-knowing men are silent, and we are left to
guess at the reasons for this calamity.
Is God angry again? Are
Floridians being punished for the 2000 election fraud? Has perhaps the
accursed Bermuda Triangle shifted
westward? Or is it a master plan by disgruntled sea creatures to
divert storms to our southern shores? If the latter, I would put manatees at
the top of the list of those subversives; their placid demeanor doesn't fool
me one bit. We patiently await the true answer from Jerry and Pat.
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Donald Gudehus, letter to The Eugene Weekly, Nov.11, 2004
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Bad soil drives out good soil.
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Donald Gudehus, Feb., 2008
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Dribble-down economics: At the top level, one hand washes another; down below, the
people receive the dribbles.
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Donald Gudehus, Oct. 31, 2003
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If a psychic's store goes up in flames, do you charge them with false advertising or arson?
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Donald Gudehus, July 8, 2012
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In its most common form, the inappropriate use of light is light pollution;
in its most insidious form it constitutes light trespass and light
assault.
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Donald Gudehus, Jan. 22, 2002
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In government, contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, and regulations are
adjusted per the highest bidder.
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Donald Gudehus, July 16, 2002
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In science, paradigm shifts are sometimes not complete until the older
generation not only dies off, but the next generation becomes convinced
that they thought of the idea themselves.
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Donald Gudehus, December 13, 2002
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In the manufacture of products, quality tends naturally to split into three levels: professional level,
consumer level, and scam level.
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Donald Gudehus, July 19, 2004
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In recent days we've experienced the Georgia Department of Education's
proposal to delete the term "evolution" from the state's science
curriculum, and the Bush administration's ongoing activity of
undermining the integrity of scientific research for its own political
purposes. The latter was recently criticized in a statement by 60
leading scientists (including 20 Nobel Laureates and 19 winners of the
National Medal of Science), and accompanied a report by the Union of
Concerned Scientists (UCS). These events are reminiscent of the era of
Lysenko in the Soviet Union, and do not bode well for the health of the
science and politics in the United States.
I've often felt that the attractiveness of Lysenkoism to the Soviets was partner to the delusional
idea that if the generation of the 1930s could be indoctrinated with Marxist philosophy
(actually not real Marxism, but a "dictatorship of the professional dictator")
then the next generation would be more atuned to such ideas, and easier to manage, with a
resultant saving in the costs of control, e.g., the overhead of gulags, the KGB, and propaganda. This
argues for a partly economic basis to Lysenkoism, a decidedly
capitalistic concept.
When science is compromised by politics, religion, thought control,
economics, etc. the result is not only bad science, but decay of the compromising entities and
infrastructures, and harm to the innocent.
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Donald Gudehus, comment on the Georgia Department of Education's proposal to delete the term
"evolution" from the state's science curriculum, Feb. 4, 2004
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Just as magicians don't reveal the secrets of their conjuring tricks, prophets don't reveal the
secrets of their miracles.
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Donald Gudehus, December, 2006
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Let sleeping astronomers lie,
And let lying astronomers dream.
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Donald Gudehus, December 27, 2011
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Never argue with a crazy person. They will bombard you with irrelevant fiction, and never yield an inch.
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Donald Gudehus, July 15, 2014
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Password? We don't need no stinkin' password. That's all lower case and no spaces.
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Donald Gudehus, July, 2009
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Religion is like cigarettes. Too much of it stunts the growth - in this case, of the intellect
and the emotions.
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Donald Gudehus, June, 2003
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Slam dunk, or Damn bunk?
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Donald Gudehus, commenting on President Bush's case for the pre-emptive war against Iraq, http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/history-general/200508/1, August 29, 2005
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Some religions and faith-based schemes start off with allegedly good intentions;
more than a few however, degenerate into insidious mechanisms for supression and
retribution. The transformation is not unlike that of a house of cards
into a chamber of horrors.
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Donald Gudehus, 2001
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Talk is cheap; the wrong talk is expensive.
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Donald Gudehus, November 17, 2008
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The evolution of evil in scientists and engineers:
Stage 1 - Sniveling ingrate
Stage 2 - Little/oversized smartass
Stage 3 - Spherical bastard
(see F. Zwicky for the definition of spherical bastard)
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Donald Gudehus, 2003
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The only way I can get interested in a can of worms is if I'm going fishing.
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Donald Gudehus, June 3, 2011
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The sea is a liquid tiger.
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Donald Gudehus, 1975
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The squeaky wheel gets oiled, the noisy wheel gets recycled.
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Donald Gudehus, May, 2002
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The sun never sets on the English Ivy.
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Donald Gudehus, February 27, 2006
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The waves pound on the shore.
A genius is born; ... and passes.
The waves pound on the shore.
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Donald Gudehus, 1974
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The world quickly forgets about losing vice presidential candidates and failed prophets.
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Donald Gudehus, December, 2006
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To believe is to have an opinion; to know is to be able to exclude other opinions.
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Donald Gudehus, 1966
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Tyranny begins in the home
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Donald Gudehus, May 9, 2013
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Would you buy a used oil well from this man?
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Donald Gudehus, on a protest demonstration poster in reference to George W. Bush, September, 2002
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You know a cheese is well aged, if the mammal it came from is extinct.
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Donald Gudehus, December, 2006
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If something moves and it's not supposed to move, use Duct Tape;
if something is supposed to move, and it doesn't move, use WD-40;
if something is supposed to move, and you aren't strong enough to move it, use a Vise-Grip.
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Donald Gudehus, July, 2016
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Herman Andrew Gudehus (Hermann Andreas Ludwig Gudehus) (Aug. 3, 1906, Hoboken, NJ - Jan. 4, 1979, Whiting, NJ),
American artist
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Believe half of what you see and a quarter of what you hear.
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Herman Gudehus
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Danger lurks at every corner.
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Herman Gudehus
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (Feb. 16, 1834, Potsdam, Prussia (Germany) - Aug. 9, 1919, Jena, Germnay),
Germnan biologist
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I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed
by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race
(phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the
closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity
and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis,
determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).
Referred to as The biogenetic law: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Ernst Haeckel, in Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, 1899
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Politics is applied biology.
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Ernst Haeckel
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the
Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
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Ernst Haeckel
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (Nov. 5, 1892, Oxford, England - Dec. 1, 1964, Bhubaneswar, India), British geneticist
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I'll gladly lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.
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J. B. S. Haldane, a quip to summarize kin selection in evolutionary biology
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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can
imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but
queerer than we can suppose.
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J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286
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Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755, Coventry CT - Sept. 22, 1776, New York City, NY), American patriot and Captain inthe Revolutionary Army
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words before being hanged by the British
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall (S[tephen] G. Tallentyre) (1868 - 1919)
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall, paraphrasing Voltaire's words in
his Essay on Tolerance: "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy
the privilege to do so too" in The Friends of Voltaire, 1906
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Alexander Hamilton (1755, Nevis, British West Indies - July 12, 1804, New York City, NY), Founding father and
first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905, Jonkoping, Sweden - Sept. 18, 1961, Ndola, Zambia),
Second Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953 - 1961)
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Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the
anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjöld, from Markings
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Christopher Hampton (Jan. 26, 1946, Fayal, Azores - ), English Oscar-wining playwright
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct
result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being
who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything
but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it
feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Choosing the lesser of two evils, is still choosing evil.
Christopher Hampton
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie,
and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
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Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872, Albany, NY - August 14, 1961, New York, NY), U. S.
Federal Court judge and co-founder of The American Law Institute
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A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is
strong enough to break it through."
Learned Hand, in The Preservation of Personality in The Spirit of Liberty, 1927, p. 32
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture....
Learned Hand, in Sources of Tolerance, 1930, p. 79
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from
those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock
us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and tastes,
like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.
Learned Hand, in The Preservation of Personality, 1927, p. 34
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of
liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit
of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit
of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is
the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned,
but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and
considered side by side with the greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an America
which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which never will be except as the conscience
and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies hidden in some
form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at
this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America I ask you to rise and
with me pledge our faith in the glorious destiny of our beloved country.
Learned Hand, in The Spirit of Liberty, 1944, pp. 190-191
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Hannibal (Joy of Baal) (Hannibal Barca) (247 BC, Carthage - 183, Prussia), Carthaginian general and stateman
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We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
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Sydney J. Harris (1917 - 1986), American columnist
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, but one who is
prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only
major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is
capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
Sydney J. Harris
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris, in Detroit Free Press, January 7, 1982
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old
idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris
The three most difficult tasks in life are neither physical feats nor are
they intellectual achievements. Rather they are moral acts:
1. To return love for hate.
2. To include the excluded.
3. To say, "I was wrong."
Sydney J. Harris, in response to being asked what the three most difficult
things were
Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a
brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
Sydney J. Harris
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Douglas Rayner Hartree (Mar. 27, 1897, Cambridge, England - Feb. 12, 1958, Cambridge, England),
British computer scientist
|
The time from now until the completion of the project tends to become constant.
Douglas Hartree
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Paul Harvey (Sept. 4, 1918, Tulsa, OK - ), American news commentator
|
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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con', what is the opposite of progress?
-
Paul Harvey
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Stephen Hawking (Jan. 8, 1942, Oxford, England - ), English physicist
|
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God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the
dice where they cannot be seen.
-
Stephen Hawking, from Nature 1975, 257, 362
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My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is
and why it exists at all.
-
Stephen Hawking
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Carolyn Hax (December 5, 1966 in Bridgeport, CT - ), American writer and columnist
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Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about
it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through
their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.
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Carolyn Hax, in "Tell Me About It", August 18, 2007
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George Friderich Wilhelm Hegel (August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Germany - November 14, 1831, Berlin, Germany), German philosopher
|
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
-
Hegel
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Heinrich Heine (Christian Johann Heinrich Heine) (Dec. 13, 1797, Düsseldorf - Feb. 17, 1856,
Paris, France), German poet
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Das Meer hat seine Perlen,
Der Himmel hat seine Sterne,
Aber mein Herz, mein Herz,
Mein Herz hat seine Liebe.
(The sea has its pearls,
The heaven its stars,
But my heart, my heart,
My heart has its love.)
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Heinrich Heine
from Die Nordsee, VII - Nachts in der Kajüte (The North Sea, VII - At Night in the Cabin)
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Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am ende Menschen.
(Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.)
-
Heinrich Heine
from Almansor, 1820 - 1821
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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
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Heinrich Heine
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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907, Butler, MO - May 8, 1988, Santa Cruz, CA), American science
fiction author
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a
building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall,
set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Robert Heinlein
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Robert Heinlein, in Beyond the Horizon, 1942
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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
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Robert Heinlein, in The Rolling stones
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
-
Robert Heinlein
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Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.
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Robert Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love
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The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men
live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
-
Robert Heinlein, on censorship
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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,
this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the
end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
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Robert Heinlein
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Werner Heisenberg (Dec. 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany - Feb., 1, 1976, Munich, Germany), German
physicist
|
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
-
Werner Heisenberg
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature
exposed to our method of searching.
-
Werner Heisenberg
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Jesse Helms (Oct. 18, 1921, Monroe, NC - July 4, 2008), United States Senator from North Carolina (1973 - 2003)
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
-
Jesse Helms
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The destruction of this country can be pinpointed in terms of its beginnings to the time
that our political leadership turned to socialism. They didn't call it socialism, of
course. It was given deceptive names and adorned with fancy slogans. We heard about
New Deals, and Fair Deals, and New Frontiers, and Great Society.
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Jesse Helms
-
The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves.
-
Jesse Helms
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Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961), American author and journalist
|
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A man has to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
-
Ernest Hemingway
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William Ernest Henley (Aug. 23, 1849, Gloucester, England - July 11, 1903, Woking, England), English poet
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
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William Ernest Henley, Invictus, 1875
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Heraclitus (535 BCE, Ephesus, Ionia (present day Turkey) - 475 BCE, Ephesus),
Greek philosopher
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an
undeserved fee for such services.
-
Heraclitus
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Fools when they do hear are like the deaf: of them does the saying bear witness that
they are absent when present.
-
Heraclitus
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Heraclitus
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Nature loves to hide.
-
Heraclitus
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There is nothing permanent except change.
-
Heraclitus
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You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in
upon you.
-
Heraclitus
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Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany - Aug. 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland),
German poet, novelist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1946
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-
Hermann Hesse
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Hermann Hesse
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John Heywood (1497 - 1580), English playwright, poet, musician, and entertainer
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
-
John Heywood
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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John Heywood
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Many hands make light work.
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John Heywood
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Rome was not built in one day.
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John Heywood
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There are none so blind as those who will not see.
-
John Heywood, in Dialogue of Proverbs, 1546
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-
John Heywood
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When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
-
John Heywood
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
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John Heywood
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James Hightower (January 11, 1943, Denison, TX - ), American populist, radio commentator, and author
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A guy who can strut sitting down.
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Jim Hightower, in reference to Newt Gingrich
-
George Bush was born on third base and decided that he'd hit a triple.
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Jim Hightower, Texas Agriculture Commissioner, at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, GA, 1988,
in reference to George Herbert Walker Bush
-
Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
-
Jim Hightower
-
The elite in this country get to acting like they're the top dogs and we're just a bunch of fire hydrants out here.
-
Jim Hightower
-
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
-
Jim Hightower
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Greg Hinkel, student of Lynn Margulis, creator of the Gaia concept
|
Gaia is just symbiosis as seen from space.
-
Greg Hinkel
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Leytonstone, London, England, Aug. 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980, Los Angeles, CA),
English-American motion-picture director
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I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying
an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never quite
equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Adolf Hitler, German despotic ruler
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If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of centemporary German science,
then we shall do without science for few years.
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Adolf Hitler, rejecting an appeal by Max Planck in the defense of Fritz Haber and other Jewish scientists
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In this they proceeded on the sound principle that the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain
factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend
to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the
primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little
one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big.
This is sometimes shortened to:
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.
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Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume One, Chapter X, 1925
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own
destruction.
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Adolf Hitler
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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902, New York City, NY - May 21, 1983, San Francisco, CA),
American writer, philosopher, and longshoreman
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not,
he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
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Eric Hoffer
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who
sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.
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Eric Hoffer
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Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The
most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
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Eric Hoffer
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Eric Hoffer
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is
indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Eric Hoffer
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The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
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Eric Hoffer
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The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the
movement as a cure.
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Eric Hoffer
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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Eric Hoffer
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you.
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Eric Hoffer
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John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota Native American
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Some day the earth will weep. She will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will
make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die.
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John Hollow Horn
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John Andrew Holmes
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting for
centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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John Andrew Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841, Boston, MA - March 6, 1935, Washington, DC), American Supreme Court jurist
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., mentioned in the verdict of Compania de Tabacos vs. Collector, 1927
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Aug. 29, 1809, Cambridge, MA - Oct. 7, 1894, Boston, MA), American poet
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the
more it contracts.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Homer, Greek poet
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We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.
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Homer
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Horace (Qintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 B.C., Venusia, Italy - November 17, 8 B.C., Italy), Roman poet and satirist
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Horace
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Horace
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Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
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I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
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Sir Fred Hoyle
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Edwin P. Hubble (1889 - 1953), American astronomer
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Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and
mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle
accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum -
we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.
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Edwin P. Hubble, 1948
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We are by definition, in the very center of the observable region. We
know our immediate neighborhood rather intimately. With increasing distance,
our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary -
the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search
among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more
substantial.
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Edwin P. Hubble, in The Realm of the
Nebulae, 1936
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Langston Hughes (Feb. 1, 1902, Joplin, MO - May 22, 1967, New York City, NY), Afro-American
novelist and poet
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I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
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Langston Hughes, from The Black Man Speaks
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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ...
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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Langston Hughes
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Victor Hugo (Feb. 26, 1802, Besancon, France - May 23, 1885, Paris, France), French novelist and poet
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be
silent.
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Victor Hugo
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Victor Hugo, from Les Miserables
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Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894, Surrey, England - Nov. 22, 1963, Los Angeles, CA),
English novelist and essayist
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
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Aldous Huxley
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Every man who knows how to read has the power to magnify himself, to multiply
the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and
interesting.
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Aldous Huxley
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Aldous Huxley
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Aldous Huxley
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Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according
as it is applied.
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Aldous Huxley
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Aldous Huxley
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and
religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for
being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
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Aldous Huxley
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887, London, England - Feb. 14, 1975, London, England),
English biologist
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of
a cosmic Cheshire cat.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
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Thomas Henry Huxley (May 24, 1825, Ealing, England - June 29, 1895, Eastbourne, England),
English zoologist
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of
authority.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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For once, the bishop's brains have come into contact
with reality.
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Thomas Henry Huxley, remarking on the death by a fall from a
horse of Bishop "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce, champion of creationism, 1873
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I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting,
remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond
necessity.
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Thomas Henry Huxley, in a letter to Ray Lankester, 1888
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the
midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is
to reclaim a little more land.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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