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  • Carlo Rubbia Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Hicks Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • David Mitchell Speaking one language only is a prison.
    Black Swan Green (2008) 153
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Henry Ford Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • E. M. Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Mann Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryce Harper Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Bruce Dern Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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