Random Quotes
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.Alfred North Whitehead
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.Hansell B. Duckett
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.Martin Gardner, "The Mathematical Magic Show"
What a deformed thief this fashion is.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.Euripides
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.Elbert Hubbard
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.Sir William Drummond
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945