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- Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new… — Carl Sagan
- Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on… — William J. Brennan
- In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures,… — Albert Hofmann
- It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. — William Empson
- I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves… — John Steinbeck
- We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. — Charles Darwin
- It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on. — Penn Jillette
- I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... — Dodie Smith
- I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he… — Jeaniene Frost
- it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as… — Frank O'Hara
- As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin