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"If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics, dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement." Nicholas Copernicus
  • Henry Clay, House Speaker (on a narrow sidewalk): "I, sir, do not step aside for a scoundrel."
  • John Randolph, stepping aside: "On the other hand, I always do."
    (06/02/1773 – 05/24/1833)
    US congressman (VA)
"Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation."
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." Samuel Palmer
"Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."
"I merely took the energy it takes to paint and wrote some blues." Edward Kennedy Ellington
"Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered—and I still do—which is more important." Hermione Gingold
"Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time."
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