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"From history we learn that we have not learnt from history." - Georg Hegel (German philosopher. 1770-1831)

"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - Eric Hoffer

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

There are 10 sorts of people in the world: people who understand binary, and people who don't.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister 1868, 1874-80; novelist. 1804-1801) Attributed to Disreali by Mark Twain in "Autobiography" (1924, vol1).

"Nothing, like something, happens everywhere." - Philip Larkin (English poet. 1922-1985) "I Remember, I Remember", 1955.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.

"Half the truth is often a great lie." - Benjamin Franklin

"Success has ruined many a man." - Benjamin Franklin

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson (Cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbs )

"Light travels faster than sound - isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? "

- Stephen Wright

"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -- Alfred Whitney Griswold