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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." »Lord Chesterfield
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"There is no place in nature for extinction." »Lucretius
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Interview - February 1972
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"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction." »J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle." »Matthew Arnold
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." »Robert Hutchins
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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly." »Woody Allen
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." »Woody Allen
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." »Woody Allen
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity" »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." »Ronald Reagan
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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