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William Lippmann
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
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Bourke Cockran
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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Larry Hawkins
We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it.
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Aristotle
A friend is a second self.
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Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Henny Youngman
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
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Unknown
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
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Arnold Bennett
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.
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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.
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John Barth
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
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