“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
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– February 24, 2021
Bertrand Russell
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
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– February 23, 2021
Nikita Khrushchev
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
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– February 22, 2021
Hagar the Horrible
“As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.”
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– February 21, 2021
Hector Berlioz
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”
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– February 20, 2021
W. H. Auden
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
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– February 19, 2021
Laurence J. Peter
“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
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– February 18, 2021
Russell Baker
“People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.”
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– February 17, 2021
Henry Ward Beecher
“The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.”
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– February 16, 2021
George Wallace
“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?”
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– February 13, 2021
