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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

—David Russell

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Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

—Michael Crichton

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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

—Segal's Law

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

—Henny Youngman

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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

—Peter Ustinov

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

—Steve Jobs

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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

—Livy

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Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

—Mary Kay Ash

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

—John Muir

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

—William Blake

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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Painting is by nature a luminous language.

—Robert Delaunay

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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

—Robert Smithson

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

—Don Marquis

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