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When a true genius appears in the w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

When a true genius appears in this …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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When a true genius appears in this …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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Albert Guinon

When everyone is against you, it me…

15 Feb , 2011  

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Guinon , (1863 – 1923)

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When everything seems to be going a…

15 Feb , 2011  

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ford , US automobile industrialist (1863 – 1947)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

Wit makes its own welcome, and leve…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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Wit makes its own welcome, and leve…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anythi…

27 Apr , 2010  

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Great short quote and quotation by: Ernest Rutherford , British chemist & physicist (1871 – 1937)

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Kahlil Gibran

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefie…

11 Jan , 2010  

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

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Mark Twain

[Humanity] has unquestionably one r…

11 Jan , 2010  

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark […]

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