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• "Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals."
  - Abba Eban (Isreali diplomat. 1915-)



• "His ignorance is encyclopaedic."
  - Abba Eban



• "It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
  - Abba Eban



• "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
  - Abba Eban, speech in London, 16th December 1970.



• "When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog."
  - Abba Eban



• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."
  - Albert Einstein (German born theoretical physicist - the originator of the theory of relativity. 1879-1955), Franklin Institute Journal, March 1936 - "Physics and reality".



• "The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent."
  - Albert Einstein, letter to Michelanelo Besso, 21 March 1955.



• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  - Albert Einstein



• "In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most."
  - Epicurus



• "All Cretans are liars."
  - Epimenides (Greek Poet)
  See Liar Paradox
  
  
• Guidelines for writing good English:
  Don't use no double negatives.
  Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.
  When dangling, watch your participles.
  Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
  Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
  About those sentence fragments.
  Try to not ever split infinitives.
  It is important to use apostrophe's correctly.
  Always read what you ave written to see if you any words out.
  Correct spelling is esential.
  - Harold Evens , London's Sunday Times
  See Curious Rules for Writers.
  
  
• "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorums"
  - Paul Erdos(Hungarian born Mathematician. 1913-1966)



• "After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President’s secretary, it erased portions of the official record. A soggy, evasive season during which Milton, unable to admit that Chapter Eleven’s attack had broken his heart, began visibly to swell with rage, so that almost anything set him off, a long red light, ice milk for dessert instead of ice cream. (His was a loud silence but a silence nevertheless.)"
  - Jeffrey Eugenides(Author) Middlesex.

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