Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. H. Mumford Jones
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sidney J. Harris
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. Jane Wagner
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb Colton
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. Dr. Thomas Fuller
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better. Louis C. K
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.Peter Ustinov
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better. Louis C. K
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Steven Wright
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. Franklin P. Jones
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. H. L. Mencken
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner
Never fight an inanimate object. P. J. O'Rourke
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