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Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

— Heywood Broun Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012)

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

The average editor cannot escape feeling that telling a writer to do something is almost the same thing as performing it himself.

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