People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too...

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too...