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"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

By Oscar Wilde

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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose."

By J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

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"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

By Voltaire

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"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."

By Remy de Gourmont

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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."

By Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940

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"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."

By Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II,72)

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"My fellow astronauts..."

By Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration

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