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    "Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - A. Einstein

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    Or Alexandre Dumas much earlier:

    "Une chose qui m’humilie profondément est de voir que le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas."

    In English: "One thing that deeply humbles me is to see that human genius has limits, when human stupidity has none."
    "I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse

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    Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr,

    Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. George Carlin
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    "I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods."

    – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    "I don't know, Marge, trying is the first step toward failure." Homer Simpson

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    The taverns are full of gadabouts making merry this eve and though I may press my face like an urchin at a confetioner's, I am tempted not by the sweetness within. A dram in exchange for the pox is an ill bargain indeed.
    Diary of Samuel Pepys re the Great Plague of 1665-6.

    More on the plague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_...ntive_measures
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    Quote Originally Posted by 21frogman View Post
    Diary of Samuel Pepsis re the Great Plague of 1665-6.
    Assume you mean Pepys.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    Assume you mean Pepys.
    You're correct, of course. Thanks, Don.

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    “We say that time is a great teacher. It’s too bad that it kills all its students.” -Hector Berlioz
    "I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse

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    Albert Einstein:
    Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

    If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21frogman View Post
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    If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?
    An empty mind?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RTR2021 View Post
    An empty mind?
    I'm no Einstein, but I'm sure that's what he had in mind.

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    It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled.

    Mark Twain

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