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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C. S. Lewis / Novelist
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutherford Physicist

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

Fred Allen Comedian

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Henry David Thoreau Author

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

Jean De La Fontaine Poet

Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody.

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

Michael Gove British Politician

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