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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow - Charlie Brower

Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. - Bertrand Russell

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? - Clarence Darrow

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. - English Professor, Ohio University

In any slide presentation, at least one slide will be upside down or backwards, or both. - John Corcoran

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

Don't make a baby if you can't be a father. - National Urban League Slogan

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. - Theodore Roosevelt