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• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• Homer: Brothers, I've learned a wonderful lesson: helping others makes our own lives better and makes us better people.
  So instead of just shooting pool and drinking beer, let us Stonecutters use what we have to help the less fortunate....
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
  -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
  My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) to Albert Einstei...
• If you don't want to work, you must work harder to get ahead a little so that you don't have to work to stay afloa
  and when you are not working, it is work to avoid work, because it is so often presented to you as something to be done....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention i
  because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false....