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Ernest: Gilbert, you treat the world as if it were a crystal ball.  You hold it in your hand, and reverse it to please a wilful fancy.  You do nothing but re-write history.
Gilbert: The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it.
--Oscar Wilde, Intentions 1891
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“As I looked out into the night sky,
across all those infinite stars,
it made me realise how insignificant they are.”
—Peter Cook
(Russell Brand in “My Booky Wook 2007”, nicely misquoting Peter Cook.)
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Newly installed EMU president Brendan Kelly warns anyone interested: “When I say these jobs are hard, they are impossibly hard. These are just incredibly complex organizations in a really unstable environment.”
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lifted from an ann arbor observer article (behind a paywall #alas)

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Christian Religion: An Enquiry
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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian writer, from the poem: “My Country”, 1908
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Man is quite insane. He would not how to create a mite, and he creates gods by the dozens.
from Essais bk. 2, ch. 12, 1580
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533–1592
#QuoteOfTheDay #Literature #GreatWriting

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
--Clair Boothe Luce, U.S. politician and writer, Slam the Door Softly, 1970
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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
--Mark Twain
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The human mind is a wonderful thing.
It begins working the moment you’re born, and doesn’t stop until you have to speak in public.
--Anonymous
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If you need statistics to prove it, it probably wasn’t true in the first place.
--Jack Frost, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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