You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

—Milton Berle

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About Milton Berle

Portrait of Milton Berle

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host...

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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison—if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

—Milton Berle

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

—Milton Berle

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Laughter is an instant vacation.

—Milton Berle

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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

—Milton Berle

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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

—Woodrow Wilson

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Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time.… The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away.

—Bonita Freedman

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I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.

—David Foster Wallace

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But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will, and that can be rather wonderful.

—Victoria Connelly in At Home with Mr. Darcy

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

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