For The Truth Of The Conclusions Of Physical Science, Observation Is The Supreme Court Of Appeal. It Does Not Follow That Every Item Which We Confidently Accept As Physical Knowledge Has Actually Been Certified By The Court; Our Confidence Is That It Would Be Certified By The Court If It Were Submitted. But It Does Follow That Every Item Of Physical Knowledge Is Of A Form Which Might Be Submitted To The Court. It Must Be Such That We Can Specify (Although It May Be Impracticable To Carry Out) An Observational Procedure Which Would Decide Whether It Is True Or Not. Clearly A Statement Cannot Be Tested By Observation Unless It Is An Assertion About The Results Of Observation. Every Item Of Physical Knowledge Must Therefore Be An Assertion Of What Has Been Or Would Be The Result Of Carrying Out A Specified Observational Procedure.

- Sir Arthur Eddington

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The Thing Always Happens That You Really Believe In; And The Belief In A Thing Makes It Happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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I’m A Born-Again Atheist.

- Gore Vidal

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Writing Is The Only Profession Where No One Considers You Ridiculous If You Earn No Money.

- Jules Renard

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After Being Turned Down By Numerous Publishers, He Had Decided To Write For Posterity.

- George Ade

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It Is Difficult To Produce A Television Documentary That Is Both Incisive And Probing When Every Twelve Minutes One Is Interrupted By Twelve Dancing Rabbits Singing About Toilet Paper.

- Rod Serling

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I Think People Want Their Illusions And Writers Are Mostly Illusion. When You Read Their Words, You Read A Flattened, Incomplete Version Of The Writer.

- Gordon Atkinson

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Though I Am Grateful For The Blessings Of Wealth, It Hasn’t Changed Who I Am. My Feet Are Still On The Ground. I’m Just Wearing Better Shoes.

- Oprah Winfrey

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The Secret Of A Good Sermon Is To Have A Good Beginning And A Good Ending, Then Having The Two As Close Together As Possible.

- George Burns

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Popularity? It Is Glory’s Small Change.

- Victor Hugo

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Every Man Has Business And Desire,
Such As It Is.

- William Shakespeare

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Humility Is No Substitute For A Good Personality.

- Fran Lebowitz

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Never Read A Book Through Merely Because You Have Begun It.

- John Witherspoon

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Work While You Have The Light. You Are Responsible For The Talent That Has Been Entrusted To You.

- Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

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Nothing In The World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not; Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent. Genius Will Not; Unrewarded Genius Is Almost A Proverb. Education Will Not; The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts. Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent. The Slogan ‘Press On’ Has Solved And Always Will Solve The Problems Of The Human Race.

- Calvin Coolidge

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To Think About Your Life Is To Create It. You Have To Take Ownership Of Where You Are Right Now And Know Where You Want To Go Before You Can Get There. Keep Collecting Evidence For Your Success. You Can Believe It, And You Can Be It.

- Ali Vincent

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The Best Armor Is To Keep Out Of Range.

- Italian Proverb

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Politics Is The Skilled Use Of Blunt Objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

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Correct Me If I’m Wrong, But Hasn’t The Fine Line Between Sanity And Madness Gotten Finer?

- George Price

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Usa Today Has Come Out With A New Survey – Apparently, Three Out Of Every Four People Make Up 75% Of The Population.

- David Letterman

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Nearly All Legislation Involves A Weighing Of Public Needs As Against Private Desires; And Likewise A Weighing Of Relative Social Values.

- Louis D. Brandeis

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If God Lived On Earth, People Would Break His Windows.

- Jewish Proverb

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Think of many things, do one.

- Portuguese

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A Successful Marriage Is An Edifice That Must Be Rebuilt Every Day.

- Andre Maurois

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It Took Me Fifteen Years To Discover That I Had No Talent For Writing, But I Couldn’t Give It Up Because By That Time I Was Too Famous.

- Robert Benchley

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Doubt ‘Til Thou Canst Doubt No More…Doubt Is Thought And Thought Is Life. Systems Which End Doubt Are Devices For Drugging Thought.

- Albert Guerard

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It Is Dismal Coming Home, When There Is Nobody To Welcome One!

- Ann Radcliffe

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Be Very Circumspect In The Choice Of Thy Company. In The Society Of Thine Equals Thou Shalt Enjoy More Pleasure; In The Society Of Thy Superiors Thou Shalt Find More Profit. To Be The Best In The Company Is The Way To Grow Worse.

- Francis Quarles

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There Is Left Us Ourselves To End Ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

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Run From A Knife And Rush A Gun.

- Jimmy Hoffa

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Thoughts Give Birth To A Creative Force That Is Neither Elemental Nor Sidereal. Thoughts Create A New Heaven, A New Firmament, A New Source Of Energy, From Which New Arts Flow. When A Man Undertakes To Create Something, He Establishes A New Heaven, As It Were And From It The Work That He Desires To Create Flows Into Him. For Such Is The Immensity Of Man That He Is Greater Than Heaven And Earth.

- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

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Television Has Raised Writing To A New Low.

- Samuel Goldwyn

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It Is Better To Sleep On Things Beforehand Than Lie Awake About Them Afterward.

- Baltasar Gracian

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Peace Is Not An Absence Of War, It Is A Virtue, A State Of Mind, A Disposition For Benevolence, Confidence, Justice.

- Baruch Spinoza

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If I Could Give You Just One Gift Ever For The Rest Of Your Life It Would Be This. Confidence. It Would Be The Gift Of Confidence. Either That Or A Scented Candle.

- David Nicholls

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To Be Stupid, Selfish, And Have Good Health Are Three Requirements For Happiness, Though If Stupidity Is Lacking, All Is Lost.

- Gustave Flaubert

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Cakes Have Such A Terrible Habit Of Turning Out Bad Just When You Especially Want Them To Be Good.

- L. M. Montgomery

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Maybe Our Mistakes Are What Make Our Fate. Without Them, What Would Shape Our Lives? Perhaps, If We Never Veered Off Course, We Wouldn’t Fall In Love Or Have Babies Or Be Who We Are.

- Michael Patrick King

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What We Play Is Life.

- Louis Armstrong

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In A Mad World Only The Mad Are Sane.

- Akira Kurosawa

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