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Henry David Thoreau
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
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Mark Leeper
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
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Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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Cicero
By doubting we come at truth.
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English Proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall.
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George Santayana
America is a young country with an old mentality.
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Josh Billings
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Fred Allen
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Stevie Wonder
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
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Mark Twain
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
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