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| The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. | | Jorge Luis Borges | | |
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| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | | Albert Einstein | | |
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| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. | | Albert Einstein | | |
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| The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. | | Nathaniel Borenstein | | |
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| The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. | | Chamfort | | |
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| The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. | | Friedrich Hegel | | |
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| The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. | | Niels Bohr | | |
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| The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. | | Bertrand Russell | | |
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| The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. | | Max Lerner | | |
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| The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. | | Unknown | | |
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| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | | F. Scott Fitzgerald | | |
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| The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. | | Marcel Proust | | |
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| Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research. | | Unknown | | |
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| There are no errors in this book, except this one. | | Unknown | | |
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| There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. | | Unknown | | |
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| There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. | | Paul Rudnick | | |
