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From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Date: 20070101
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage; there is never a thunderstorm 
or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. 
Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and 
fire off pistols. 
--Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955) 
 
Upon the cunning loom of thought / We weave our fancies, so and so. 
--Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836-1907, American novelist 
 
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought 
without accepting it.... Original thoughts can be understood only in 
virtue of the unoriginal elements ...

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