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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.', Henri Poincare', French mathematician & physicist (1854 - 1912)

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.', Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952', US editor & reformer (1897 - 1980)

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!', Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities', English novelist (1812 - 1870)

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.', George Bernard Shaw', Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.', Katharine Whitehorn', Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.', William Thayer Shedd',