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Warren Buffet

I buy expensive suits.They just look cheap on me.

Anon

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Isaac Asimov

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

Anon

Because of the internet, never before have we had so many people so well-informed, yet at the same time, so completely wrong.

Stephen Jay Gould

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Anon

Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.

Winston Churchill

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.

James Reston

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Isaac Asimov

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in non-scientists being wrong.

John Andrew Holmes

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.