Shuan's Writing Book

This is currently where I put my learning and practicing stuff for TOEFL. I'll also post some quotes here.

Thursday, June 03, 2004

QUTATIONS

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- Johann von Neumann

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
-- James F. Byrnes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
-- Mo Udall

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer

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