We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. - Robert Benchley - Quotesmemo.com

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God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

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Robert Benchley

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

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God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

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Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

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Tim Gane

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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

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Martha Stewart

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I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house.

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