P.J. O'Rourke  - Quotes

 The average IQ in America is 

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Miyamoto Musashi  - Quotes

 In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction. 

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John von Neumann  - Quotes

 If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. 

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Tom Stoppard  - Quotes

 Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat 

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David Wells  - Quotes

 On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as  

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