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If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.
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The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated with the atoms of the body. In fact, all mass is mass of the ether; all momentum, momentum of the ether; and all kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the ether, This view, it should be said, requires the density of the ether to be immensely greater than that of any known substance.
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For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.
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I love all things Christmas.
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What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!†Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?†“Don’t try to be clever, young man.†She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
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I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'
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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
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Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
