“History is all explained by geography.” — Robert Penn Warren
Quotations
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“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” — Neil Armstrong
(Thanks, Hugh.)
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“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.” — Marcus Aurelius
Misc
- Newton was born the year that Galileo died.
- Cole Porter’s summer home was called No Trespassing.
- 66339 = (6 × 6)3 + 39
- Could you have had different parents?
- “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Ben Franklin
UPDATE: The first item here is incorrect. The dates coincide only if one uses the Gregorian calendar to date Galileo’s death and the Julian to date Newton’s birth. The two events occurred 361 days apart, which puts them in separate years on both calendars. Apparently this is a very common error. (Thanks, Igor.)
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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
Misc
- 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