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“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?”
Erma Bombeck
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.”
French Proverb
“But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.”
Antonin Artaud
“If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the mind of God."”
Stephen Hawking
“I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man.”
Bill Hicks
“And to answer the question that people have about this conspiracy theory that he has a pack in his back, my answer is, if someone was feeding him answers, couldn't they be able to feed him better ones than he came up with?”
Bill Maher
“I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory”
William Wordsworth
“The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t”
Eleanor Roosevelt