CosmoBC.com Quotes - Archive for April 2010

Funny

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself." John Ciardi US poet (1916 -...

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Funny

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 -...

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Intellectual

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 -...

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Travel

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." Charles...

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Love & Happiness

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 -...

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"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322...

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Peace

"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." George C. Marshall US general (1880 -...

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Imagination

"Everything you can imagine is real." Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 -...

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Technology

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." Putt's...

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Committees

"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." Robert...

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Life

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." David...

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Life

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing." Michael E....

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Fear

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." Eric Hoffer (1902 -...

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Education

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant US historian (1885 -...

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Science

"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true." Carl Sagan US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 -...

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Mind

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it not open." Frank...

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Science

"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 English cosmologist and physicist (1942 -...

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