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Notable Quotes
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

"The pursuit of knowledge is an adventure." - Don Whitehead

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details."
- Albert Einstein

"When you're competent, in an age when so many people are incompetent, it makes you look extraordinary."
- Billy Joel (when asked why he is so successful)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put." 
- Winston Churchill

"Democracy is the worst form of rule, apart from all the rest."
- Winston Churchill

"Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have."
- Rene Descartes

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." 
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is after all a very finite being in his capacity and powers of doing actual work, but when it comes to planning, one mind can in a few hours think out enough work to keep thousands of men employed for years." -
Washington Roebling


Inside quotes...

"I'm not even knowing what it is looking like." - Pinaki Mitra  (when asked if he had his own golf clubs)

"At least lots!" - John Rine  (when asked to confirm that America has "lots" of jet fighters)


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