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Selected Quote “Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.”
W. I. E. Gates
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Euripides 484-406BC “When acorn falls on head, it doesn't mean the rest of the Oak tree will follow.”
Chinese proverb “If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”
Voltaire “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”
H. L. Mencken “It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair (American Author 1878–1968) [cf Global Warming, Speed Camera Partnerships] “We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization”
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 “Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
“Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.”
W. I. E. Gates |
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