Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
-- Sydney Harris
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
-- Sydney Harris
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but her rules and their applications are much, much... - Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual
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Sydney J.... - I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing
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George Santayana (1863... - Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney J....
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Wernher Von Braun when asked if man can be replaced... - If brains were water,
hers wouldn't be enough to baptize a flea...
