[MLUG - DISCUSSION] interesting quotations

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Below are some interesting quotations that I found on this page:

http://www.slate.com/id/2561/

The author of that article, Herbert Stein, died in 1999.  In addition to 
many professional achievements, he was Ben Stein's father:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein

Stein interprets the third quotation below as advice to not waste your 
time arguing with crazy people or with people who make no sense.

Mike


Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent, not by 1 percent.
--Edward Denison, in conversation, about 1960

We [the American colonists fighting in the War of Independence] have
shed our blood in the glorious cause in which we are engaged; we are
ready to shed the last drop in its defense. Nothing is above our
courage, except only (with shame I speak it) the courage to TAX
ourselves.  --James Madison, 1782

"If you meet a madman who says that he is a fish and that we are all
fishes, do you take off your clothes to show him that you do not have
fins?"  --Milan Kundera, Risibles Amours, 1984

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T.S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934

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