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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs…
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and…
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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what…
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and…
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
— Hippolyte Taine
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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise,…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports…
— Malik ibn Anas
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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is…
— Umar
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There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there…
— Unknown Author
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
— Umberto Eco
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I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days…
— Cobie Smulders
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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to…
— Aristotle
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to…
— Seth Shostak
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