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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.


Isaac Barrow

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OSCAR ISAAC 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
OSCAR ISAAC A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of...
ISAAC ASIMOV That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of...
ISAAC NEWTON If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little fas...
ISAAC ASIMOV I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
ISAAC WATTS As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God per...
ISAAC NEWTON Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variet...
ISAAC ASIMOV Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music...
ISAAC STERN We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to se...
ISAAC HANSON Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are...
ISAAC HANSON