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“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers. … It seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary.” — Harvard College Observatory astronomer William Henry Pickering, 1908
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“By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.” — Voltaire
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- Dorothy Parker named Alexander Woollcott’s apartment “Wit’s End.”
- Can you look at something and imagine it at the same time?
- 36850 = (36 + 8) × 50
- AGNOSTIC is an anagram of COASTING.
- “The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.” — Goethe
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“Most men employ the first part of life to make the rest miserable.” — Jean de la Bruyère
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“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in, judging by experience.” — Augustus De Morgan
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“As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.” — Benjamin Disraeli
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“If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.” — Napoleon
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“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.” — Thoreau
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“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.” — Samuel Johnson
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“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
