"If no other knowledge deserves to be called……" — Thomas Bulfinch

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• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .… — James Bryant Conant
• Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to… — Luis Walter Alvarez
• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation… — Lord Byron
• Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as… — Obafemi Awolowo
• Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of… — Patrick Henry
• Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the… — Joshua Reynolds
• The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will… — John Marshall
• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in… — Humphry Davy
• True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is… — George Washington
• Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name… — George Washington
• The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos.… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
• No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under… — John Irving

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