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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Do, or do not.There is no ‘try’. (Yoda)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

If a man does his best, what else is there? (General George S. Patton)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)