All Quotes
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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.Marcel Proust
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.John Lilly
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.George Bernard Shaw
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.G.K. Chesterton
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultier
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.W.C. Fields
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein