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| #3496 | | "In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
-- Butler
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| #3497 | | "The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, `What does
woman want?'"
-- Sigmund Freud
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| #3498 | | "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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| #3499 | | Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life.
-- Dave Butler
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| #3500 | | "The preeminence of a learned man over a worshiper is equal to the preeminence
of the moon, at the night of the full moon, over all the stars. Verily, the
learned men are the heirs of the Prophets."
-- A tradition attributed to Muhammad
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| #3501 | | "The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity;
the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a
military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and
private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion;
and the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes
who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity."
-- Edward Gibbons, _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
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| #3502 | | "The question is rather: if we ever succeed in making a mind 'of nuts and
bolts', how will we know we have succeeded?
-- Fergal Toomey
"It will tell us."
-- Barry Kort
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| #3503 | | "Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
-- Will Durant
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| #3504 | | "The Mets were great in 'sixty eight,
The Cards were fine in 'sixty nine,
But the Cubs will be heavenly in nineteen and seventy."
-- Ernie Banks
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| #3505 | | "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage
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