God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam... SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness.
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the iron is hot. SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o... SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If women were humbler, men would be more honest. SIR JOHN VANBRUGH I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ... SIR JOHN LUBBOCK All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. SIR THOMAS BROWNE