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"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

"Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait."

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

"In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners."

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

"You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"In love there are things - bodies and words."

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind."

"People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing."

"This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish."

"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."

"Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway."

"Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close."

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."