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06-Jan-10David Sedaris
06-Jan-10“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”
Soren Kierkegaard
06-Jan-10“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Tom Lehrer
06-Jan-10“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”
Howard Nemerov
06-Jan-10“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
Wendell Willkie
06-Jan-10“Free men are the strongest men.”
Marty Indik
05-Jan-10“Confusion is always the most honest response.”
Sir Arthur Eddington
04-Jan-10“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
Sir Arthur Eddington
04-Jan-10“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
Bern Williams
04-Jan-10“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”