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"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

By Woodrow Wilson

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"In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations."

By Farnsworth Crowder

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"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

By Samuel Johnson

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"It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record."

By John Blasik

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"If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism."

By Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

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"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn."

By Robert Southey

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"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party."

By Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies

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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."

By David Hume

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"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

By Steven Wright

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"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."

By John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

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"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

By Robert H. Goddard

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"Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development."

By Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."

By "Aqualung" - Jethro Tull

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"I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

By Oscar Wilde

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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."