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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.