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—Nikita Khrushchev
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
—Bertolt Brecht
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
—Calvin Coolidge
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small,
—Sextus Empiricus
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There is no point in using the word “impossible” to describe something that has clearly happened.
—Dirk Gently
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
—Maimonides
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
—Elon Musk
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I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
—Audrey Hepburn
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
—Stanislaw Lem
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
—Doris Day
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
—Carl Sagan
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
—John Lithgow
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
—Quintilian