Sunday, March 02, 2008

Some Great Quotes for the week!

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Kate Reid
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould

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