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"I am become death, shatterer of worlds.": - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory.": - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.": - Thomas Jones
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.": - Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The gods too are fond of a joke.": - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.": - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.": - Gloria Leonard
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.": - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.": - Robert Orben
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten.": - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.": - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

- Revelations 6:8

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.": - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore.": - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.": - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.": - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk.": - Harold Robbins

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."

- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

"What about things like bullets?"

- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)

"How can I lose to such an idiot?": - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.": - Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good.": - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.": - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of their tools.": - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.": - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.": - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.": - Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.": - Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.": - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.": - Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses.": - George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television.": - Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.": - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.": - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.": - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books people can read?": - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.": - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible.": - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest.": - Tom Stoppard
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.": - Karl Wallenda
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized.": - Sun Tzu
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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.": - Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it.": - Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for action.": - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans.": - William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.": - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Silence is argument carried out by other means.": - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"Well done is better than well said.": - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he isn't.": - Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.": - William Congreve (1670-1729)
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.": - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.": - Lewis Perelman
"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.": - Lewis Perelman
"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required.": - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.": - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.": - Sigfried Hulzer
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