Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

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Sir Julian Huxley

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

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Lin Yutang

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

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David Letterman

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

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Koran

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Ray Douglas Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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Bertolt Brecht

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

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Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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William Ralph Inge

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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Miguel de Unamuno

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

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W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

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Lord Kelvin

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

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