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  • "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?"
    - Sarah Palin (US politician 1964- ) Going Rogue (2009)

    "Die? My dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!"
    - Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston (British statesman and Prime Minister. 1784-1865)

  • "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
    (I have made the [letter] longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.)
    - Blaise Pascal (French mathematician, physicist and moralist. 1623-62)

  • "If a laborer were to dream for twelve hours every night that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream for twelve hours every night that he was a laborer."
    - Blaise Pascal

  • “He’s so young and already so unknown.”
    - Wolfgang Pauli (Austrian born physicist. 1900-1958)

  • "Good artists copy; great artists steal."
    - Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist. First exemplar of analytical Cubism. 1881-1973)

  • "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
    - Pablo Picasso

  • “Who is a philosopher? The answer is: A philosopher is one who knows everything and nothing else.”
    - George Pólya (Hungarian born mathematician. 1887-1985)

  • "Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime, when it is light anyhow."
    - Prutkov Fictitious creation of P.E. Cleator in his book "Into Space", 1953.



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