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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 03, 2009
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
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Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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