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Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:45:16 +0000

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo da Vinci

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:45:01 +0000

The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:44:47 +0000

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:44:31 +0000

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
—Voltaire

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:53 +0000

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
—Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:42 +0000

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
—Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:27 +0000

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, I don’t know.
—Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:16 +0000

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
—Henrik Tikkanen

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:04 +0000

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
—James Thurber

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:39:50 +0000

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?
—Gwynn Thomas