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"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
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"He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." »H.L. Mencken
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"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped." »Marcel Archard
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"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." »Steven Wright
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." »Antonio Porchia
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"Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all." »Stephen Butler Leacock
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"Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you." »Julius Henry Marx
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"What if there had been room at the inn?" »Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity
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"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it." »Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie
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"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."" »Frederick L Collins
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"There ought to be a room in every house to swear in." »Mark Twain
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"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'" »Frederick L Collins
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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room." »William Hazlitt
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." »Anita Roddick
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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"Atheism has no room for human rights." »U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
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"Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water" »Signs
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"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy
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"He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch." »Unknown
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"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell
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"A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins." »Heywood Broun
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"Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside." »Ken Thompson
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." »Blaise Pascal
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"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." »Bennett Alfred Cerf
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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room." »Woody Allen
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