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A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
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Edgar Allan Poe
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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Homer
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
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Albert Einstein
The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Charles F. Kettering
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Endicott Peabody
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
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James Arthur Baldwin
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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William Shakespeare
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.
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Florynce Kennedy
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Sir Arthur Eddington
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
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William Faulkner
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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