"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

Sarnoff, David on miracles
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"A liberal is a power worshipper without the power."

Orwell, George on liberals
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on grief
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"Amusement to an observing mind is study."

Disraeli, Benjamin on amusement
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Twain, Mark on reform
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"It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient."

Twain, Mark on religion   

"There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it."

Twain, Mark on theology   

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on teacher
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"I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them."

Twain, Mark on taxes and taxation
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"To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours."

Twain, Mark on character   

"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

Twain, Mark on success
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"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Twain, Mark on statistics
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"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

Twain, Mark on speech   

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."

Twain, Mark on speakers and speaking
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"I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating."

Twain, Mark on soldier   

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Twain, Mark on right and rightness
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."

Twain, Mark on respectability
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo."

Eliot, T. S. on culture
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"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life."

Collingwood, Robin G. on science   

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery."

Chandler, Raymond on science   

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."

Carlyle, Thomas on science   

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher."

Marquis, Don on science   

"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

Bohr, Niels on science
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"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

Barr, Amelia E. on science   

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

Cronenberg, David on science
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"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"

Dickinson, Emily on science
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"The man of science is a poor philosopher."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

Lewis, C. S. on faith
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on proverbs   

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

Einstein, Albert on science
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