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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

- Anonymous

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

- Alexander Pope

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

- Henry David Thoreau