User:Wanderer57/Quotations

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HORATIO: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

HAMLET: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

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"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - Sir Arthur Eddington, (English astronomer 1882 - 1944)

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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected." - Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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"You may say that it is a matter of semantics, but semantics make a good test. As a writer I can tell you that trouble in writing clearly invariably reflects troubled thinking, usually an incomplete grasp of the facts or of their meaning." - Historian Barbara W. Tuchman

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[A homeopathic medication is] a soup made from the shadow of the wing of a pigeon that starved to death. - Abraham Lincoln

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"Rumours that I am bi are greatly exaggerated. I am a bit near-sighted." - Anonymous

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