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"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."

William Shakespeare

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Leo Tolstoy

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."

Pythagoras

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"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing."

Aristotle

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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

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We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

Woody Allen