"Art is I; science is we." - Claude Bernard
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"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have." - Davy Crockett
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BEYOND THE IMPOSSIBLE - A historical record of negativism
'Everything that can be invented has been invented' - Charles H Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
'Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote' - Grover Clevelend, 1905
'There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom' - Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
'As far as sinking a ship with a bomb is concerned, you just can't' - Rear Admiral Clark Woodward, U.S. Navy, 1939
People who look beyond the impossible will forever overwhelm those who say "it can't be done".
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"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, then you probably don't understand it yourself" - Albert Einstein.
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon
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"Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you deal with it..." - I Dunno
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau
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"Beer is an improvement on water itself" - Grant Johnson
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
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"Intelligence is best measured by the ability to adapt" - unknown
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"There is no mistake so great as that of being always right." - Chinese Proverb
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"There is nothing more empty than one who is full of oneself." - Chinese Proverb
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness" - Bertrand Russell
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"A person is smart. People are stupid"
- K (Tommy Lee Jones) in "Men in Black"
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"Boycott shampoo. Demand the REAL pooh"
- Emo Phillips
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"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
- Tom Waits
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"Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again"
- F. P. Jones
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"My cat's breath smells like cat food"
- Ralph Wiggum
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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"It's not what you earn, it's what you keep that's important."
- Gayle Mohler
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"The nearest analogy to the addictive power of television and the transformation of values that is wrought in the life of the heavy user is probably heroin."
- Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods
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"I am very pessimistic about modern music... I feel like a ghost wandering in a world gone alien." - Sergei Rachmanonoff, ca 1942
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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan |
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"Ideas are like children, there are none so wonderful as our own." - Chinese Proverb |
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"The best things in life aren't things" - bumper sticker in Santa Monica, CA
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"Good people don't need laws to know how to live, and bad people will always find a way around the laws." - Plato
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A teacher's task is to poke, provoke to a reaction, confront and elevate. - Yogi Bhajan
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)." - Walt Whitman
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"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle." - Walt Whitman
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"I got into a fight one time with a really big guy and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said 'You'll be sorry.' He said 'Oh
yeah. Why?' I said, 'Well you won't be able to get into the corners very
well.'" - Emo Phillips
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"Never assume that you don't smell like a goat" - Dr. Virgil Fleming
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"Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind." - Matthew Prior
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"A woman drove me to drink, I never even wrote to thank her." - W.C. Fields
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