“Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.” — Thomas Browne
Quotations
Second Thoughts
mentimutation
n. a change of mind
“To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.” — Marcus Aurelius
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” — John Maynard Keynes
“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?” — A.J. Ayer (attributed)
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“Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.” — W.C. Fields
Misc
- Dorothy Parker left her entire estate to Martin Luther King Jr.
- SOUTH CAMBRIDGE, NY contains 16 different letters.
- 45927 = ((4 + 5) × 9)2 × 7
- STONE AGE = STAGE ONE
- “You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.” — Logan Pearsall Smith
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“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” — G.K. Chesterton
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“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” — Samuel Butler
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“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.” — Virginia Woolf (diary, Aug. 13, 1921)
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“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.” — W.H. Auden
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“When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” — Robert Oppenheimer