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Never judge a book by its movie.
—J. W. Eagan
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Please don't try to bite my shirt off me. If you want me to take it off,
just ask...and I'll say no.
—Hollis Easter '03
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A man's gotta know his limitations.
—Clint Eastwood, "Dirty Harry"
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I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely
he is to have extreme prejudice.
—Clint Eastwood
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what
it is I'll get married again.
—Clint Eastwood
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives.
—Abba Eban
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care
for.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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In a lot of cases, mages are seen as solitary sorts with attitudes like
mad scientists—they forget to eat, the research is everything, they
don't like people, and they sacrifice cute, furry mice to The Cause.
—Courtney Eckhardt
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and
you're not to blame.
—Umberto Eco
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
—Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose"
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Translation is the art of failure.
—Umberto Eco
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
—Thomas Edison
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Hell, there are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish
something.
—Thomas Edison
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
—Thomas Edison
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean
it's useless.
—Thomas Edison
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.
—Thomas Edison
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of
thinking.
—Thomas Edison
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There is no substitute for hard work.
—Thomas Edison
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
—Thomas Edison
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
—Thomas Edison
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey
their children.
—King Edward VIII
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more
statesmen.
—Bob Edwards
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and< health. Some men
are born old, and some never grow so.
—Tryon Edwards
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great
minds.
—Tryon Edwards
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
—Paul Ehrlich
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To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
—Paul Ehrlich
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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
—Albert Einstein
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
—Albert Einstein
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Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.
—Albert Einstein
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
—Albert Einstein
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Everything should be as simple as possible—but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein
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God does not play dice.
—Albert Einstein
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
—Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds.
—Albert Einstein
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with
the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be
killed.
—Albert Einstein
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War
IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
—Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the
years of maturity.
—Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.
—Albert Einstein
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X
being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
—Albert Einstein
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
—Albert Einstein
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
—Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
—Albert Einstein
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
—Albert Einstein
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one
leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are
superfluous.
—Albert Einstein
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
—Albert Einstein
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of
the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
—Albert Einstein
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by
understanding.
—Albert Einstein
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is something for
eternity.
—Albert Einstein
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
—Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing.
—Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all
comprehensible.
—Albert Einstein
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely
made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
—Albert Einstein
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer
than any hour. That's relativity.
—Albert Einstein
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
—Albert Einstein
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
—Albert Einstein
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
both.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has
seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to
promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace
so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way
and let them have it.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's
chains.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's
the size of the fight in the dog.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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To live is always desirable.
—Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child," "Star Trek"
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy
evidence of the fact.
—George Eliot
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
—George Eliot
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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a
woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
—George Eliot
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
—George Eliot
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
—T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man"
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April is the cruellest month...
—T. S. Eliot
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—T. S. Eliot
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
—T. S. Eliot
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This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
—T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
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I will make you shorter by the head.
—Elizabeth I
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How
intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your
neck?
—Linda Ellerbee
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Man lives by imagination.
—Havelock Ellis
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what
they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
—Havelock Ellis
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
—Havelock Ellis
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The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had
they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
—Havelock Ellis
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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
—Havelock Ellis
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What we call "progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another
nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis
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The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity.
—Harlan Ellison
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Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot.
—Oliver Elphick
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think
aloud.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing
before.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All mankind love a lover.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Children are all foreigners.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is
a stab at the health of human society.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any
preaching.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better
mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the
world will make a beaten path to his door.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come
back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our best thoughts come from others.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of
civilization.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by
friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to
be struck.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him
asleep.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men—that is genius.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not remember days; we remember moments.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Weed—a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
—Quintus Ennius
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
—Nora Ephron
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and
prospered, someone else would do it for you.
—Nora Ephron
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Scitum est inter caecos luscumregnare posse.
(It is well known that among the blind the one-eyed man is king.)
—Desiderius Erasmus
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
—Desiderius Erasmus
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes.
—Desiderius Erasmus
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
—Paul Erdos
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone
believes he has the biggest piece.
—Ludwig Erhard
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I
notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
—John Erskine
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He talked with more claret than clarity.
—Susan Ertz
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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
—Susan Ertz
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
—M. C. Escher
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I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
—M. C. Escher
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
—M. C. Escher
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John
Was Gay
But Gerard Hopkins
Was Manley
Dame May
Was Whitty
But John Greenleaf
Was Whittier
Oscar
Was Wilde
But Thornton
Was Wilder
—Willard Espy
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Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a
number. You're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and
another number.
—James Estes
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
—Euripides
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The best of seers is he who guesses well.
—Euripides
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There is something in the pang of change
More than the heart can bear,
Unhappiness remembering happiness.
—Euripides
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
—Euripides
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Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the
same rate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more
efficient would the current models be? If you have not already heard the
analogy, the answer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a
Rolls-Royce for $2.75, it would do three million miles to the gallon, and
it would deliver enough power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II. And if you
were interested in miniaturization, you could place half a dozen of them
on a pinhead.
—Christopher Evans
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The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
—Harold Evans
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That's my larynx.
—Carr Everbach, Acoustics professor, setting a plastic bag on the
table