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The world always makes the assumpti…

25 Jan , 2017  

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the […]

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There are three classes of intellec…

22 Sep , 2015  

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The […]

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Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

There are three principal ways to l…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain. Great short quote and quotation by: Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800 ,

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There are three things that are imp…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry James , British (US -born) author (1843 – 1916)

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Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

There are two things to aim at in l…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Great short quote and quotation by: Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) “Life and Human Nature” , (1865 – 1946)

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Joe Keenan

There are, however, people in this …

3 Jul , 2015  

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist. […]

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There is no despair so absolute as …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. Great short quote and quotation by: George Eliot , English novelist (1819 – 1880)

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Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first re…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Arthur Honegger , French composer (1892 – 1955)

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Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique

There is not less wit nor less inve…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Great short quote and quotation by: Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique , French critic & philosopher (1647 – 1706)

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Adela Rogers St. Johns

There is so little difference betwe…

17 Nov , 2014  

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. Great short quote and quotation by: Adela Rogers St. Johns ,

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Gregory Benford - Timescape

There was a blithe certainty that c…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing […]

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There will be little rubs and disap…

25 Feb , 2014  

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park […]

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