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When in doubt, state the obvious. |
Jack Morgan, geography teacher c.1975 |
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The most important thing in business is sincerity: when you can fake that you've got it made. |
Groucho Marx |
| History repeats itself:
the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. |
Karl Marx |
| We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars. |
Oscar Wilde |
| If I have seen further it
is by standing on the shoulders of giants. |
Isaac Newton
(see £2 coin) |
| If I haven't seen further,
it is because giants have been standing on my shoulders. |
Anon. |
| No more things should be
presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. |
William Occam.
(Occam's razor, a principle of philosophy and science which is that the
simplest explanation is most likely the best.) |
I think that I shall never
see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all |
Ogden Nash |
If you can meet with
Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
And, which is more, you'll be a Man my son |
Rudyard
Kipling, If |
| I wouldn't want to be in
any club that would have me as a member. |
Groucho Marx |
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The difference between philosophy and religion is that whereas philosophy
asks lots of questions but comes up with no answers, religion asks no
questions but comes up with lots of answers. |
Robert
Macmillan |
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