“I used to wake up at 4 a.m. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion it must be an allergy to consciousness.” — James Thurber
Quotations
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“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.” — Danish proverb
Locke was asked how he had contrived to accumulate a mine of knowledge so rich, yet so extensive and deep. He replied that he attributed what little he knew to the not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics chiefly that formed their own particular profession and pursuits. The best-informed men are undoubtedly those who adopt this rule.
— The Leisure Hour, 1883
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“Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness.” — Samuel Butler
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“Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” — Tolstoy
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“New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?'” — H.G. Wells
Misc
- EPISCOPAL is an anagram of PEPSI COLA.
- Only a perfect square has an odd number of divisors.
- “Makes no sense makes no sense” makes no sense.
- The grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol include working oil rigs.
- “Time is the only critic without ambition.” — John Steinbeck
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“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” — Anatole France
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“It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured.” — Tacitus
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- Georgia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut didn’t ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939.
- Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
- 3864 = 3 × (-8 + 64)
- What’s the opposite of “not in”?
- Alaska has a longer coastline than all other U.S. states combined.
- “To do nothing is also a good remedy.” — Hippocrates
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” — Robert Louis Stevenson