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- no.11
- It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. -Agatha Christie, author (1890–1976)
- no.10
- Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. –Robert Brault, writer (1938–)
- no.9
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking, physicist, cosmologist, author (1942–2018)
- no.8
- Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. –Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742–1799)
- no.7
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. –Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933–2004)
- no.6
- My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. –Billy Connolly, comedian, actor, writer, musician (1942–)
- no.5
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. –Aristotle, philosopher, polymath (384 BC–322 BC)
- no.4
- Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, 'What's in it for me?' –Peter De Vries, author, editor (1910–1993)
- no.3
- Whoever came up with the term action sports should get some kind of award trophy gong prize from the International Global World Tautology Foundation Institute Association. –Roger Cox; The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland); Aug 7, 2010.
- no.2
- I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly. –Peter Cook, actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter (1937–1995)
- no.1
- How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? –François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, author (1613–1680)