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Benjamin Disraeli

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ...

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Voltaire

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back.

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back. ...

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Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ...

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Peter McIntyre

Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ...

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Gregory Benford

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. ...

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Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ...

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Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. ...

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Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo ...

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Arthur C. Clarke

No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident ...

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Plato

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

Pleasure is the bait of sin. ...

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Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. ...

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Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ...

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Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ...

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Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The possible ranks higher than the actual. ...

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Sa'di

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. ...

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Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. ...

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Ovid

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. ...

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Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ...

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Ovid

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. ...

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Ovid

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity. ...

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