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Greg Ross — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:19:18 +0000

“Where there’s a will there’s a won’t.” — Ambrose Bierce

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Greg Ross — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:18:54 +0000

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” — Tacitus

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Greg Ross — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:48:25 +0000

“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”

– Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925

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Greg Ross — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:46:42 +0000

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” — Elbert Hubbard

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Greg Ross — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:44:13 +0000

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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Greg Ross — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:59:05 +0000

“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, ‘Is it reasonable?’” — Richard Feynman’s father

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Greg Ross — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:23:41 +0000

“Life is a horizontal fall.” — Jean Cocteau

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Greg Ross — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:19:58 +0000

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France

Curiously, when France died in 1924, doctors found that his brain was two-thirds normal size. But, said surgeon Louis Guillaume, “It was the most beautiful brain one could dream of seeing. Its convolutions were marvelous.”

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Greg Ross — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:55:51 +0000

“It is difficult not to write satire.” — Juvenal

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Greg Ross — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:01:12 +0000

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw