All Quotes
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.George Bernard Shaw
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.Don Quinn
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.Unknown
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.La Rochefoucauld
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.(Anon.)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for.John A. Shedd