Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd - Voltaire
People in the past didn’t think that they were living in the past, they believed that they were living on the cutting edge of now - Michael Faber
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular - Adlai Stevenson
Every physician should become knowledgeable in the art of cooking - Galen
There seems to be a tendency in England nowadays to consider that risk capital for new companies can be conjured up by civil servants & economists waving a sort of magic wand over the bankers - Nevil Shute, 1954
I sometimes confuse my thoughts about the world with the world itself - Paul Auster
