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"As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider."
"A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence.""
"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
"It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself."
"The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring."
"Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak."
"Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us."
"I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires."
"My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory."
"Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless."
"The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
"If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?"
"I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo."
"Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."
"If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple."
"Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime."
"The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe."
"If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist."
"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
"The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get."
