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“In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can’t be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.”
--- Jonathan Miller (1934 - )
“No, Groucho is not my real name. I’m breaking it in for a friend.”
--- Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx (1890 – 1977)
“All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
--- Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
--- Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)
“A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.”
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 – 1935)
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