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From Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
- A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
- There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the…
- A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone…
- A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
- From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic…
- I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying…
- A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that…
- We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden…
- Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
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