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She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.: Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)
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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.: French Proverb
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
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