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Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple



The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull



Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957



Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, "The Good Fight"



Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha



Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner



In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy



The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies



We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller



I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin



Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo



As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget. ~Cloris Leachman



Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown



He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb



Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, spoken by the character Frank Burns



Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ~Nicholas Negroponte