"The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say."

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“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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"Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it."

— Tzvetan Todorov

Literature1939–2017

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"508. He that tells a secret is another's servant."

— George Herbert

Music1593–1633

#language

"I was stunned to learn that there are CIA operatives inside some state governments. They are not in executive positions—in other words, not appointed by the governor—but are permanent state employees.…"

— Jesse Ventura

Politics1951

#knowledge

"Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them."

— Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy

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