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“The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.”
John Ciardi
US poet (1916 – 1986)
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
Charles Kuralt
RT @spacefuture The “Hubble Effect” -A New Picture of the Universe #space http://bit.ly/c4SUMJ #
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Astronomy Picture of the Week – Jupiter from Voyager:
This photo of Jupiter featuring the […] http://bit.ly/bxOvxJ
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
Isn’t the little panda cute?http://bit.ly/bT5Fah
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
George C. Marshall
US general (1880 – 1959)
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)
“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”
Putt’s Law
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”
Robert Copeland
This photo of Jupiter featuring the Great Red Spot was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it flew-by the planet in 1979. The Great Red Spot is a giant hurricane-like storm rotating in the planet’s atmosphere. It is so large that three Earth’s would fit inside. It is still unclear as to how old […] http://bit.ly/ab51ub