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Citations

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Chronologically, for no man can choose the day of his birth.

From Isaac Newton:

  • "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."[1]

From Oscar Wilde:

  • "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."[2]

From Albert Einstein:

  • "Mache die Dinge so einfach wie möglich - aber nicht einfacher."

From Winston Churchill:

  • Lady Astor: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Reply: "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."
  • "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."[3]

References

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  1. ^ In a letter
  2. ^ The original passage is in "The Importance of Being Earnest" on page 9, when Jack says to Algernon: "That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple." Upon which Algernon replies: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossiblity!"
  3. ^ At Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House following the victory at El Alamein in North Africa, London, 10 November 1942