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11795"...when things go wrong, we seek bogeymen rather than face up to our own sTimF42/13/2009
11794"Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due."TimF-2/11/2009
11793"The role of the economist in discussions of public policy seems to me to bTimF-2/11/2009
11792I loved that last quote. No true poet would fail to marvel at science, in my opManyMoose12/11/2009
11791"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as duTimF-2/11/2009
11790 More Feynman quotes ---- "If an apple was magnified to the size of the TimF22/11/2009
11789Right. If he said that he did more to earn his Nobel than Al Gore did.ManyMoose12/11/2009
11788Message 22708347TimF-2/11/2009
11787A thousand billion or a million million would be more meaningful. We are becomiManyMoose-2/10/2009
11786They're now using "trillions" in context of this financial mess. IStan-2/10/2009
11785Just watch "The Universe" on the History channel, and you'll becomManyMoose-2/10/2009
11784"When $100 billion no longer seems like a significant sum of money, it'TimF12/10/2009
11783"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems ratheTimF31/29/2009
11782Forgive me if I've posted this before, but it is a favorite: <I>“timeManyMoose21/27/2009
11781"To seek ‘causes’ of poverty…is an intellectual dead end because poverty haTimF41/26/2009
11780“As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X isTimF-1/26/2009
11779"There are, though, many especially those greedy for renown and glory, who TimF51/26/2009
11778When faced with difficulty often you just depend on your old bad habits. DMaA&#Peter Dierks-1/26/2009
11777"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." ~ MulhollandDrive-1/20/2009
11776Two for the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama II as the 44th President of theElmer Flugum11/18/2009
11775"It is almost impossible to study history without an accompanying desire foTimF-1/14/2009
11774All the hours wound. The last one kills. -Latin proverb.Stan11/14/2009
11773<i>"It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politiRoad Walker-1/14/2009
11772"Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, 'Dad burTimF21/13/2009
11771"It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians.&quTimF21/8/2009
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