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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. – James Thurber

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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber

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Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think youll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber

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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about “and.” – Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. – Henry David Thoreau

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We come to this work because the alternative, being consumed by the effort to ignore the mystery of being, is no longer acceptable. – Ken McLeod, Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. – Brian Klemmer

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