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| #10651 | | What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928
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| #10652 | | What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go around the sun. If we went
around the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "A Study in Scarlet"
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| #10653 | | What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
-- Nikita Khruschev
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| #10654 | | What the world *really* needs is a good Automatic Bicycle Sharpener.
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| #10655 | | When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any
hour. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein
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| #10656 | | When Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, the telephone people interrupted
service for one minute in his honor. They've been honoring him intermittently
ever since, I believe.
-- The Grab Bag
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| #10657 | | When some people discover the truth, they just can't understand why
everybody isn't eager to hear it.
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| #10658 | | When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four.
-- S. Johnson
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| #10659 | | "When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical."
-- Jon Carroll
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| #10660 | | When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the
stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them
from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were
set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as
bodies of a lower grade ...
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
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