Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.
Jim Gaffigan
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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
Plato
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Mike Tyson
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Francis Bacon
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When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.
William Harvey
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We should think of the problems of the people who gave us all this confidence, and I'm proud, but I feel responsible.
Rafik Hariri
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
Francis Bacon
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The Jews are not a nation!
Joseph Stalin
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Plato
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Necessity, mother of invention.
William Wycherley
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Contentment: The smother of invention.
Ethel Watts Mumford
