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Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
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Maxwell Planck
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
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Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Christine Lane
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
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Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
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