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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

—Henri Poincare

Laughter is an instant vacation.

—Milton Berle

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

—William Butler Yeats

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

—O. Henry

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

—Georges Simenon

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

—Albert Einstein

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

—Conrad Hall

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

—Oscar Wilde

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

—Henri Cartier-Bresson

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers—six if one went to Harvard.

—Edgar Fiedler

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity—romantic love and gunpowder.

—André Maurois

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

—James A. Baldwin

Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.

—Morgan Matson in  Since You've Been Gone