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Wit makes its own welcome, and leve…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anythi…

27 Apr , 2010  

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Great short quote and quotation by: Ernest Rutherford , British chemist & physicist (1871 – 1937)

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Kahlil Gibran

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefie…

11 Jan , 2010  

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

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Mark Twain

[Humanity] has unquestionably one r…

11 Jan , 2010  

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark […]

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