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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. .

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

There is nothing permanent except change.