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But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)