"Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves."

-- John Ray

#Eavesdropping Quotes

“Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.”
“What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.”
“If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.”
“Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?”
“Our larger goal is to tell the story”
“Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.”
“The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”
“If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.”

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