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Quotations I like
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
--Niels Bohr
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
--Agnes Repplier
"All that we may see or
seem
Is but a dream within a dream"
-- Edgar Allen Poe
"Art is science made clear."
-- Jean Cocteau
"God is a comedian
playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
-- Voltaire
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war
against reality."
-- Jules de Gaultier
"Only two
things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former."
-- Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-- Albert Einstein
"There are two ways to
live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
"In a holy mind the world may be
transformed."
-- Tobias Churton
"There may always be
another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at."
-- Christopher Fry
"All people dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
--T.E. Lawrence
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
"Why do we kill people that kill people to show that killing people is wrong?"
--Holly Near
"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than educated."
--Robert C. Savage
"Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in a single hour."
--William Blake
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"It is good for an uneducated man to read a book of quotes."
--Winston Churchill
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so
are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people, and neither do we."
--George W. Bush, Aug. 5, 2004
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