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Catch 22

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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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But did thee feel the earth move?

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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