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Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.