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"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."	Dean Gooderham Acheson
"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."	Donald J. Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."	Douglas Noel Adams
"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."	James Truslow Adams
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."	Scott Adams
"As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool."	Akhenaton
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."	Brian Aldiss
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."	Woody Allen
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."	Jean Anouilh
"As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread."	Richard Willard Armour
"I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander."	Isaac Asimov
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."	Saint Augustine
"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."	Saint Augustine
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."	Saint Augustine
"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers."	Richard David Bach
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."	Sir Francis Bacon
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