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Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

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"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

Godfrey Harold Hardy

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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Woody Allen

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“Underachiever---and proud of it, man!”

Matt Groening

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

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"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."

Thomas de Quincey

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower