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“Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?”

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Jon Stewart, born on November 28, 1962, is an American satirist, comedian, writer, and television host. He is best known for his work on 'The Daily Show', where he used satire and humor to deeply analyze American politics and social issues. more

“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.”

World Kind Has Beens Facts Problem Bigs Individual Modern Civilization Members Benefits Organization Structure Contact Modern World Fellowship Big Problems Julius

Author:Julius Nyerere

“Travel is an act of humility”

Humility

Author:Pico Iyer

“Impossible is relative.”

Impossible Relative

Book:Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel

Source: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel

“When primeval man ﬁrst used ﬂint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the ﬂints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.”

Men Would Be Used Purpose Steps Break Fashion Stones Wide Fragments Primeval

Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand

“Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes”

Lost Minutes Battle

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."”

Has Beens Lying Names Party Known Calling Drunk Satan Obnoxious Lucifer Belial

Author:Gary Larson

“What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.”

Thinking Humans Looks Human Beings Laughing Sight Horrible Gestures Limbs Visitors Furious Martians Flailing

Author:Marvin Minsky

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