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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. (Frank Zappa)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (John D. Rockefeller)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)