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Quote:The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.[George Patton]

Quote:We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.[George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright]

Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [George Santayana]

Quote:[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. [Napoleon Bonaparte]

Quote:Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [Francois de La Rochefoucauld]

Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall]

Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [Sir Arthur Eddington]

Quote:Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. [Henri Poincare]

Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein]

Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein]



Definitions of: collect

Definition: To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

Definition: To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

Definition: To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

Definition: A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

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