“Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness.” — Samuel Butler
Quotations
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“Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” — Tolstoy
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“New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?'” — H.G. Wells
Misc
- EPISCOPAL is an anagram of PEPSI COLA.
- Only a perfect square has an odd number of divisors.
- “Makes no sense makes no sense” makes no sense.
- The grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol include working oil rigs.
- “Time is the only critic without ambition.” — John Steinbeck
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“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” — Anatole France
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“It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured.” — Tacitus
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- Georgia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut didn’t ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939.
- Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
- 3864 = 3 × (-8 + 64)
- What’s the opposite of “not in”?
- Alaska has a longer coastline than all other U.S. states combined.
- “To do nothing is also a good remedy.” — Hippocrates
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.” — Emerson
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- River Phoenix was born River Bottom.
- Every natural number is the sum of four squares.
- What happens if Pinocchio says, “My nose will grow now”?
- Shakespeare has no living descendants.
- “All generalizations are dangerous — even this one.” — Dumas