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| He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| You see things and you say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw |
| Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. Edwin Percy Whipple |
| And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. Thomas Jefferson |
| There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James |
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| Longevity : Oldest living triplets Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell were born in Sweetwater, TX on 18 May 1899, and live together in a Sweetwater retirement home. |
| Dragonflies : Largest Megaloprepus caeruleata of Central and South America has been measured up to 4.72 in across the wings and 7.52 in in body length. United States - The giant green darner ( Anax walsinghami ), found in the West, has a body length of up to 4 1/2 in. |
| Dogs : Best tracker In 1925 a Doberman pinscher named Sauer, trained by Detective-Sergeant Herbert Kruger, tracked a stock thief 100 miles across the Great Karroo, South Africa by scent alone. |
| Space Flight : First physical laws - The physical laws controlling the flight of artificial satellites were first postulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), begun in March 1686 and first published in July 1687. |
| Horse Racing : Perfect card - The only recorded instance of a racing correspondent forecasting ten out of ten winners on a race card was at Delaware Park, Wilmington, DE on 28 Jul 1974, by Charles Lamb of the Baltimore News American . |
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In promulgating your esoteric cogitation and in articulating your amenable and philosophical observations beware of platitudinous ostentation. Let your extemporaneous incantations and unpremeditated expiation have intelligibility without hyperbole and bombast. Be assiduous in avoiding polysyllabic profundity, vacuity and interminable verbosity. | "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." Al... |
| We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |