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"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways." »Dr. Karl Menninger 
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." »Albert Einstein 
"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind." »Napoleon Bonaparte 
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle 
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett 
"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience." »Denis Watley 
"Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'" »This Is Spinal Tap 
"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson 
"Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." »Henri Poincare 
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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