There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
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James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. Great short quote and quotation by: James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968 , (1909 – )
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Walter Scott , Scottish author & novelist […]
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Great short quote and quotation by: Richard Whately ,
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Heinlein , US science fiction author (1907 – 1988)
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. Great short quote and quotation by: G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , English author & mystery novelist […]
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , US jurist (1841 – 1935)
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas H. Huxley , English biologist (1825 – 1895)
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about. Great short quote and quotation by: C. C. Colton ,
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