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Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
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We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop
reading them.
    Ray Bradbury
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
    Harry S Truman
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"I put my trust in Allah."
The Prophet then said:
"Tie your camel first, then put your trust in Allah"
    At-Tirmidhi, 2517
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men,
women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real
small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
    Douglas Adams
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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives.
Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
    Peter F. Drucker
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it's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.
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Within the problem lies the solution
    Milton Katselas
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.
    John F. Kennedy ,  Inaugural Address (Jan. 20, 1961)
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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists.
    Eric Hoffer
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When one door closes another door opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
    Alexander Graham Bell
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
    Abraham Lincoln
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a
human journey.
    Stephen R. Covey
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A wise man's question contains half the answer.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your
life has touched.
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Data is not information, Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
    Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
    Alan Kay
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
    Soren Kierkegaard
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Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
    Winston Churchill
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
    Ben Franklin
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
    Joe Walsh
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
    Will Rogers
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and
that's your own self.
    Aldous Huxley
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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis.
Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown
without help.
But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on
it
and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
    Robert Heinlein ,  Time Enough for Love (1972)
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for
complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
    Dalai Lama
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his
experience.
He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
    Bernard Baruch
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Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
    Assyrian Proverb
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of
thinking that created them.
    Albert Einstein
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson ,  Conduct of Life
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
    Charlie Chaplin
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it.
    Alistair Cooke
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
    Chinese Proverb
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
    Kahlil Gibran
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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old
enough to know better.
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
    Margaret Fuller
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The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
    George Herbert
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Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
    Cicero
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons
for them!
    Nietzsche
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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do
it right.
    Kurt Herbert Alder
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever.
    Chinese proverb
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By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!
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Change is good, but dollars are better.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers.
    Ralph Nader
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
    G. B. Stern
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'
    Mohandas Gandhi
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love;
Born out of concern for all beings.
    The Budha
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time
that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    Oscar Wilde
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
    Herm Albright
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Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
    Lloyd Dobens and Clare CrawfordMason ,  Thinking About Quality
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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already
there.
    Will Smith
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and
sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver W. Holmes
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We can never tell what is in store for us.
    Harry S Truman
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong.
And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
    Benjamin Disreali
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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs,
what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but
the methods we used to accomplish them.
These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly
killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
    Hans A. Bethe
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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I hate mankind, for I consider myself one of the best of them, and I know how
bad I am.
    Samuel Johnson
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for
it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
    George Bernard Shaw
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend,
as to find a friend worth dying for.
    Homer
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You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
    Stephen W. Comiskey
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Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any
longer.
    The Lion
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These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the
devil.
    Kara Vichko
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human
associations together.
Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe...
Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    H. L. Mencken ,  (1928)
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    Theodore Roosevelt
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Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society --
things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
    E. B. White
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People are more easily led than driven.
    David Harold Fink
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An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
    Paul Valry
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
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Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
    GeorgeLouis Leclerc de Buffon
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While one should always study the method of a great artist,
one should never imitate his manner.
The manner of an artist is essentially individual,
the method of an artist is absolutely universal.
The first is personality, which no one should copy;
the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big
plans... aim high in hope and work.
    Daniel H. Burnham
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Few people think more than two or three times a year.
I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a
week.
    George Bernard Shaw
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
    Anne Swetchine
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to
be.
    Socrates
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Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body.
He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly,
with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters,
as far as your time and circumstances allow,
especially in those things which relate to your profession.
    Isaac Watts
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
    Tennessee Williams
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
    Harold Geneen
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Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
    Adlai Stevenson ,  (October 3, 1952)
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It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money.
And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy.
Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
    Jack Handy
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Not only are you what you think you are, more so; what you think, you are.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives.
    Abba Eban
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His ignorance is encyclopedic
    Abba Eban
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Israel is not an aviary.
    Abba Eban
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When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the
disadvantages of the overdog.
    Abba Eban
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for
them tomorrow.
    Abba Eban
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors
sued
for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
    Abba Eban
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive
rejection,
let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
    Abba Eban
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant
reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
    Abba Eban
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes
individually.
    Abba Eban
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He who lives with his memories becomes old. He who lives with plans for the
future remains young.
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Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer.
    Macy's Motto
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when
you make it again.
    F. P. Jones
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
    Napoleon
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
    T. S. Eliot
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He who has never failed somewhere... that man can not be great.
    Herman Melville
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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him
is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing
to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
    Jack Handy
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You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
    Edward Keating
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I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
    Will Rogers
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Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
    Marilyn Monroe
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
    Seneca
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
    Frederick Douglass
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To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
    Erik Nupponen
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A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries
to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the
long term.
    Robert Reich
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something.
    Helen Keller
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light,
and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
    Thomas Jefferson
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
    Epicurus
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The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by
bankruptcy.
    Nick Nuessle (1992)
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Victory is a political fiction.
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Delay is preferable to error.
    Thomas Jefferson
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
    Ann Douglas
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed
journalism.
    Hedrick Smith
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
    Ayn Rand
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Some see things as they are and ask 'Why?'. I dream things that never were and
ask, 'Why not?'
    George Bernard Shaw
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree,
is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals.
We cause accidents.
    Nathaniel Borenstein
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It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised
when the same things happen to him.
    M. Thompson
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite
direction.
    Ernst F. Schumacher
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
    Henry Kissinger
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
    Alan Dean Foster ,  To the Vanishing Point
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True Love is only for those strong enough to endure it.
    Jim Roberts ,  Journals of Time
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Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust,
words become life itself.
    John Harold
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That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't
good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
    Calvin
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy
evidence of the fact.
    George Eliot
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You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
    George Bernard Shaw
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
    Muhammad Ali
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Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now.
    Barry Forbes
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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
    Marvin Gaye
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
    Sir Walter Scott
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One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and
between nations...
is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations,
there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before
resorting to combat.
    Jimmy Carter
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Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group;
there was less competition there.
    Indira Gandhi
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
    Charles De Gaulle
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We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the
fire.
    Eric Hoffer
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    George Santayana
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What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
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Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
    Jim Beggs
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"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time"
    Bursar 1 - Hex 0 - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
    James Klass
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
    Albert Einstein
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It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
    Tom Stoppard
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Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal
kind.
    Kay Ingram
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Try not. Do or do not.
    YODA
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Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
    Brian
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Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at
all.
    Keller
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.
When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come.
Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are
preserved.
    Confucius
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Kiss the girl, get the key... they never taught us *that* in the Obsidian Order
    Elim Garak - Star-Trek Deep space Nine
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Lying is a skill like any other and if you want to maintain a level of
excellence you have to practice constantly.
    Elim Garak - Star-Trek Deep space Nine
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess
your ignorance.
    Confucius
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
    Mae West
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the
Forest that was left out by mistake.
    A. A. Milne ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are
some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns,
the ones we don't know we don't know.
    Donald Rumsfeld
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Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of
democracy remain,
pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it.
Objectively, the pacifist is pro-Nazi.
    George Orwell
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"you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the
time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
    Abraham Lincoln
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if i were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
    Abraham Lincoln
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all
doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who
hustle.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of
liberty.
    Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961) - John F. Kennedy
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
    John F. Kennedy
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
    Dr. Linus Pauling
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is
sure.
    Mark Twain
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
    Hiram Johnson
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
    Alfred Alder
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America.
If I'm not there, I go to work.
    Robert Orben
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.
For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those
of earlier times?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
    Danny Kaye
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that
you will not meet again in life.
    John Paul Richter
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
    Henry Ford
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might
weaken and the wisest might err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
    Socrates
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
    Carl Jung
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to
plant vines.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen
to weather forecasts and economists?
    Kelvin Throop, III
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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill
the world at large with surprise and horror.
    W. Somerset Maugham
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from
those who are still undecided.
    Casey Stengal
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Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
    William Shakespeare
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If you have a vision, do something with it.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt
himself over the other.
    Baha'u'llah
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If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
    Jeanne Holm
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for
it back when it begins to rain.
    Robert Frost
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Fortune favors the bold.
    Virgil
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
    Sir Winston Churchill ,  speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
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When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts,
don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
    A. A. Milne ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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Mankind is the animal that makes tools. In each generation, only a few people
get a chance to create new tools. Very, very few get to contribute to making
a tool that changes the lives of first hundreds, then thousands, then tens of
thousands,
and someday millions of people.
    John Walker, Autodesk
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Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail.
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A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe
everything positively stinks.
    Lew Col
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
    Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and
saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
    Muad'dib, "Dune"
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At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activities are
scheduled.
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Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the
answers.
    Gene Wolfe, "The Claw of the Conciliator"
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Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser.

But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
    The Mahabharata
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Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.
    Howard Chaykin
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
    Herodotus
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
    G.K. Chesterton
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Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
    R. Geis
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't,
don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
    Joseph Heller, "God Knows"
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Disease can be cured; fate is incurable.
    Chinese proverb
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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
    Lao Tsu
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
    B. Franklin
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He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
    Lao Tsu
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
    Lao Tsu
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He who knows, does not speak.  He who speaks, does not know.
    Lao Tsu
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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
    William Allen White
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I do not seek the ignorant; the ignorant seek me -- I will instruct them.
I ask nothing but sincerity.  If they come out of habit, they become tiresome.
    I Ching
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I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
    Gotama Buddha
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In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is;
you're what's left.
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In the next world, you're on your own.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
    Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"]
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Murphy was an optimist.
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Murphy's Law is recursive.  Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
    Lao Tsu
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
    Theodore Sturgeon
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No matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
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Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over the
first one.
    Confusion
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Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage.
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To lead people, you must follow behind.
    Lao Tsu
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
    Gandhi
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Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
    J. Winter Smith
----
With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.
----
You can get *anywhere* in ten minutes if you drive fast enough.
----
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
A log may float in a river, but that does not make it a crocodile.
----
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your
shoe
----
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
    Henry Kissinger
----
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of
sin and woe.
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said
that
democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that
have been tried from time to time.
    Sir Winston Churchill ,  Hansard, November 11, 1947
----
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
----
The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability.
    Henry Ford
----
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
    Henry Ford
----
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a
mountain top.
----
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
    Confucius ,  Analects
----
To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you
now, ask why?
    W. H. Auden ,  Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
----
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
There are three things which the superior man guards against.
In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness.
When he is old...covetousness.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire
----
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
    Voltaire
----
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the
shoulders of giants.
    Sir Isaac Newton
----
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with
sense,
reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo
----
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
    Yassir Arafat
----
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
----
A good friend is often better than a brother.
----
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.
----
A man dies when he stops working.
----
A man too good for the world is no good for his wife.
----
A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
----
Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless
----
Do not judge your fellow man until you have stood in his place.
----
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any
side.
----
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
----
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
----
If your friend becomes your enemy, he will be your enemy for life.
----
One God and so many enemies.
----
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
----
Programmers don't sleep - they just park their heads
----
Some people believe in windows They also believe that the earth is flat.
----
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
----
You can lead a man to politics, but you can't make him think
----
Hidden talent counts for nothing
    Nero
----
Don't hate; it is too big a burden to bear.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character.
I have a dream today!
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of
our friends
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
And when a man injures and oppresses you and deals unjustly with you,
you should deal kindly with him and forgive him. This you will strike at the
root
of hatred and enmity and he who is your enemy will become your friend.
    Koran
----
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
    Koran
----
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
    Koran
----
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace,
and alms-giving procures us admission.
    Koran
----
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
    Koran
----
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers
increase.
...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system,
but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
    Frank Herbert Dune
----
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you
will
create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore,
maintains
among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ,
    Frank Herbert The Dosadi Experiment
----
Adults are obsolete children.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living,
it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
    Dr. Seuss
----
Look at me! Look at me! Look at me now! It's fun to have fun, but you have to
know how!
    Dr. Seuss
----
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way
    Dr. Seuss
----
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. It's not ,
    Dr Seuss The Lorax
----
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
----
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
----
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles
and tyrants, and so saves societies.
    Colton
----
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from
it all that is not gold.
    Leo Tolstoy
----
It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him
or whether you don't.
    A. A. Milne ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
----
Art can't hurt you.
    Fred Babb
----
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be
bought and sold are legislators.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
    Aristotle ,  Nichomachean Ethics
----
It's life, Jim... but not as we know it.
    Spock
----
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
    Aristotle ,  Rhetoric
----
Vulcans never bluff.
    Spock "The Doomsday Machine," stardate 4202.1.
----
Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your
human intuition.
    Spock "Assignment: Earth"
----
Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
    Spock "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3.
----
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
    August Hare
----
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
    Appius Claudius
----
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you.
    Eric Hoffer
----
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force;
like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
----
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
    William Strong
----
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire
catalogue.
    Sears, Roebuck, and Co. ,  Consumer's Guide (1897)
----
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn
the opposed.
    Whitney M. Young, Jr.
----
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
    A. A. Milne ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
----
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep
you awake during the night.
    Marilyn Vos Savant
----
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
    Charles Dickens
----
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop
thinking and go in.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
----
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
    T. S. Eliot
----
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
    A. A. Milne ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
----
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
    Niettzche ,  The Twilight of the Idols (1888)
----
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
    Russian proverb
----
Egotist: A person more interested in himself than in me
    Ambrose Biencea (1842-1914)
----
"The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
sure of themselves while wiser people are so full of doubt."
    Bertrand Russel (April 6th 1999)
----
"All new technology is rejected and then accepted."
    Isaac Asimov (Apr 19-25)
----
"Look at us. When life has become futile, meaningless, unindurable; it must be
allowed to end.
Can't you see captain, for us the disease is immortality."
    Q (Star Trek: Voyager) (Jun 23-28)
----
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones."
    Albert Einstein (Jun 29-Jul 4)
----
"The philosophy of the hunter is that you take only what you need, and you
share the rest."
    Leonard George, Tsleilwaututh Chief (Jul 5-11)
----
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it
remains premature today."
    Isaac Asimov (Oct 23-Nov 3)
----
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
    Albert Einstein (Nov 4-Dec 9)
----
"If the Truth is dynamic; how will it ever be found?"
    Dan Gorski (Sept 23-29)
----
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
    Beverly Sills (Sept 29-Oct 14)
----
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
    George Bernard Shaw (Nov 22-Dec 2)
----
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the
terrors of the future.
    Frank Herbert (Dune) (Feb 9-Mar 11)
----
"There is no sin except stupidity."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
    Tacitus
----
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
    Niels Bohr
----
When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
    African Proverb
----
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the
hunter.
    African Proverb
----
If the enemy within cannot kill us, then the enemy without can do us no harm
    African Proverb
----
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
    Arabian proverb
----
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
    Brendan Behan
----
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
    Chinese Proverb
----
...a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where
we want to go hopeless, we are lost forever.
    Chinese Proverb
----
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change,
but that they build nests in your hair,this you can prevent.
    Chinese Proverb
----
If you stand in one place long enough, the world will come to you.
    Chinese Proverb
----
Only after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last fish has been
caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only then will you realize that
money cannot be eaten.
    Cree Indian Prophecy
----
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
    English Proverb
----
When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
    Ethiopian Proverb
----
The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives
    Indian proverb
----
You have only 2 things to worry about,
either you are sick or you are healthy,
if you are healthy, you have nothing to worry about,
but if you are sick you have 2 things to worry about,
you will get well,
or you will die,
if you get well,
you have nothing to worry about,
but if you die,
you will have 2 things to worry about,
you will go up,or you will go down,
if you go up,
there is nothing to worry about,
but if you go down,
you will be so busy shaking hands with old friends you won't have time to worry!
    Irish Proverb
----
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto a blade of grass and not
fall off the earth.
    Irish Proverb
----
Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday
as if it were your last.
    Irish proverb
----
At the end of the game, The king and the pawn go back in the same box.
    Italian Proverb
----
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
    Italian Proverb
----
If you stand up like a nail you will get hammered down.
    Japanese Proverb
----
the reverse side also has a reverse side
    Japanese proverb
----
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
    Japanese proverb
----
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows
    Japenese proverb
----
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
    Jewish Proverb
----
As long as you have nothing to shoot for, you will always have plenty of
ammunition.
    John Ward
----
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you
    Maori Proverb
----
The generous and bold have the best lives.
    Poetic Edda, a compilation, ca. 1200 AD, of earlier Icelandic poems (19)
----
It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.
    Roman proverb
----
The church is close, but the road is icey. The bar is far, but I will walk
carefully.
    Russian Proverb
----
Water that does not move, is always shallow...
    Sami proverb
----
They talk of my drinking but never my thirst
    Scottish Proverb
----
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
    Serbian proverb
----
I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.
    Spanish Proverb
----
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
    Spanish proverb
----
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
    Swedish Proverb
----
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
    Swedish Proverb
----
Faith is to believe in things that we do not see, and the reward of this faith
is to see in what we believe.
----
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
    Russian Proverb
----
Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire
    A Yippie proverb
----
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is
twins.
    Chinese Proverb
----
First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting in the
mountains.
    Chinese Proverb
----
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
----
If it keeps you awake, its art; if it puts you to sleep, its a drug.
----
There are two kinds of people _ those who run and those who should!
----
the same people wrote the bible that thought the world was flat
----
Let's Ban Humans. They All Suck Anyway.
----
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
----
Trust but verify.
----
When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.
----
Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
----
A half-truth is a whole lie
----
Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand.
Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh
----
Anyone who teases you loves you
----
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house
----
Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death
----
Do not ask questions of fairy tales
----
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small
----
Do not meet troubles half-way
----
Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed
out
----
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
----
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill
----
Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile
----
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers
----
He who puts up with insult invites injury
----
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a
wonderful living
----
If you can't go over, you must go under
----
In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter
----
Never trust people who tell you all their troubles but keep from you all their
joys
----
Prepare your proof before you argue
----
Pride is the mask of one's own faults
----
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all
----
Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty
----
"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall"--but don't rush to pick his up, either
----
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law
----
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten
----
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth
----
What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in
sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead
----
When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed
----
When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage
----
With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too
----
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money
----
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him
----
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn
----
A rich man has no need of character
----
Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses
----
An advantage of poverty: your relatives gain nothing by your death
----
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
    Karl Kraus
----
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
    Herman Cain
----
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
    Katherine Hepburn
----
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
----
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may
start a winning game.
    Goethe
----
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very
angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
    Douglas Adams
----
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough
to your eye.
    Samuel Grafton
----
We must become the change we want to see.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the
visionary and the idealist.
    Eric Hoffer
----
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
    Nancy Newhall
----
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were
wrong.
    Wilson Mizner
----
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
    James Feibleman
----
We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a
responsibility.
    Newton Minow
----
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
----
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
    Peter Drucker
----
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you
do with what you have left.
    Hubert Humphrey
----
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
    Philip Crosby ,  Reflections on Quality
----
5 out of 2 people are dyslexic
Dyslexics of the world: untie!
----
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.
----
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...
----
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.
----
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help
section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
----
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Corruption is a crime.
Crime doesn't pay. So if you keep studying you'll go broke!
----
If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures kippers?
----
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man how to fish,
and he will sit in a boat drinking beer all day...
----
The only two things that are infinite in size are the universe and
human stupidity. And I'm not completely sure about the universe.
    Albert Einstein
----
I knew it would be in the last place I looked for it, so I looked there first.
----
Here's a horrible thought: You know how dumb the average person is? Well,
half the human race is even dumber than that...
----
Love between a man and a woman can be a beautiful thing,
especially if you're between the right man and the right woman.
    Woody Allen
----
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
----
If Bill Gates got a nickel every time some version of Windows crashed or
frustrated,
he's be the richest man in the world!
----
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant!
----
It was a woman that drove me to drink. Such a shame I forgot to thank her
----
The I.S.O. standard unit of female pulchritude is the milli-helen.
This is the amount of beauty capable of causing the launching of a single ship.
----
Women are like pianos - When they're not upright they're grand.
----
It's a dog eat dog world out there..... And vice versa.
----
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork
    Peter DeVries.
----
If you can't beat them, join them, then beat them.
----
If you were going to shoot a mime - would you use a silencer?
----
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
    Aristotle
----
The concept of relative ethics is truly a tribute to the human mind, and man's
ability to delude himself.
----
Men will send one perfect rose, without realising a girl's need for one perfect
limo.
    Dorothy L. Parker
----
If scientists are so clever, what is the speed of dark?
----
God Is Perfect,
Man Is Not,
Man Made Alcohol,
God Made Pot !!!!
----
Windows: A 32 bit extension and graphical shell,
for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system,
originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Good thing there's not any.
----
It's hard to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
----
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother.
    Albert Einstein
----
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe
you anyway.
----
If at first you don't succeed, give up skydiving.
----
A man is not truly drunk until he can't lie on the floor without holding on.
----
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to
make them stop."
    G. Weilacher
----
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
----
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
----
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people
haven't.
----
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here,
and whether you can hear it or not,
the universe is laughing behind your back.
----
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
----
If vegetarians eat vegetables, beware of humanitarians!
----
Most computer problems are caused by a loose nut between the chair and the
keyboard.
----
Why do clairvoyants need doorbells ?
----
Where do you want to tell Microsoft to go today?
----
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
----
Help me to be careful of the toes I step on today As they may be
connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow.
----
I have a firm grip of reality - now I can strangle it....
----
Experts eliminate the simpler mistakes in favor of the more complex ones,
thereby achieving a higher degree of stupidity.
----
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a
room with a single mosquito.
----
Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean I
----
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they
start making vacuum cleaners......
----
Life would be much easier if I had the source code.
----
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
----
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Work like you don't need the money Love like you've never been hurt And dance
like no one's watching
----
If you have nothing to hide, why do you use an envelope?
----
Homo Sapiens is a goal, not a description.
----
Early to rise, early to bed, makes you healthy but socially dead.
----
Unfinished business - business that is finished, but you don't like the way it
turned out.
----
Remember half the people you know are below average.
----
I am in shape. Round is a shape.
----
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder
what else you can do while you're down there.
----
There are three kinds of people in the world.
Those who can count and those who can't.
----
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
    Albert Einstein
----
Everyone thinks I'm psychotic, except for my friends deep inside the earth.
----
If the gods had meant for mankind to fly, they wouldn't have made the ground so
hard, or so far down.
----
Eagles soar but a weasel will never get sucked into a jet engine.
----
Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months
Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months
----
At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!'
Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.
----
Suburbia: where they tear down all the trees and name streets after them.
----
Money doesn't make you happy, but money can buy gizmos and gizmos make you
happy.
----
If voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
----
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who
doesn't get it.
----
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
"O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
----
I started out with nothing,and I`ve still got most of it left.
----
I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing.
----
Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
----
I found out what serendipity meant by accident.
----
To a Pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To an Optimist, the glass is half full.
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
----
Be aloof, there has been a recent population explosion of lerts.
----
Doesn't it bother you that we have to search for intelligent life
    OUT THERE??
----
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
----
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other
trees make fun of it?
----
Conscience: That part of the psyche that dissolves in alcohol.
----
I don't practice what I preach, because I'm not the kind of person I'm
preaching to.
----
There are two secrets for success.
    1: Don't reveal all your secrets
    2:
----
Breast size multiplied by IQ always equals 69.
----
What we need is either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
----
There are basically three kinds of men.
There are the ones who learn by reading.
Then there are the few who learn by observation.
The rest just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
----
What is a rhetorical question?
----
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
----
Even in the worst of times, there is always someone who's never had it better.
Even in the best of times, there is always someone who's never had it worse.
----
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
----
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before
it is understood.
----
A lawyer is an expert on justice the way a whore is an expert on love.
----
God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the Good Fortune to run into the ones I do, And the Eyesight to tell the
difference.
----
Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected us as kids,
we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to
repetitive music.
----
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station........
----
Windows error messages in Haiku #2:
    Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
----
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
----
Bigamy is having one too many wives. Monogamy is the same.
----
Got kleptomania? Take something for it.
----
A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a
McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine.
----
If God had meant carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.
----
Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more
people use it
is like saying that McDonalds makes the best food in the world.
----
A real friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away.
A real friend is someone you can use over and over again.
----
There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to say.
----
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
----
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what
you shouldn't have said.
----
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
----
Veni, Vidi, Visa. (I came, I saw, I bought.)
----
People say that I suffer from insanity. Actually, I enjoy every minute of it.
----
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the weaponry to make the difference
stick!
----
God must have loved calories, she made so many of them.
----
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
----
UNIX is not user-unfriendly; it merely expects users to be computer-friendly.
----
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
Space is nature's way of keeping it all from happening to you.
----
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW.
----
Smith & Wesson: THE original point and click interface...
----
If a man says something in the middle of a forest and there isn't a woman
around to hear him, is he still wrong?
----
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
    those who understand binary,and those who don't
----
I think the last place I'd like to be beamed is 'Up Scotty'
----
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
----
The golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
----
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will
multiply instead of disappear.
----
We've heard that a million monkeys bashing away at a million
keyboards could produce a complete Shakespearian work Now,
thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
----
When did I realize I was God?
Well, I was praying, and noticed that I was talking to myself.
----
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a
swimming pool.
----
Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs in one.
----
Mathematicians, please don't drink and derive.
----
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical
problem --
how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
----
Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive.
----
The problem with the world is stupidity.
Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity,
but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the
problem solve itself?
----
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
    Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
----
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
    Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC)
----
#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
    California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
----
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the
foot.
----
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
    Farmers' Almanac, 1978
----
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
    Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
----
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
    Pierre Auguste Renoir
----
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
    Seneca (5 BC - 65)
----
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
    Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
----
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
    Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC), from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras
----
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world;
and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve
men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
----
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
    Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
----
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
    James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844
----
"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a
shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
    W. H. Auden
----
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
    Neil Armstrong, On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969
----
Thats one small code in perl, one giant leap in computing time.
    Ido Kanner - After making a quotation reader in perl
----
"There is still no cure for the common birthday."
    John Glenn
----
"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a
baseball game."
    Glenn Dickey
----
"No one is entitled to the truth."
    E. Howard Hunt
----
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more
justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power,
would be justified in silencing mankind."
    John Stuart Mill
----
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less,
until eventually he knows everything about nothing."
----
Harry: Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening
to her,
or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
    Dumb & Dumber (1994), Dumb & Dumber
----
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
    Robert Anthony
----
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
    Erich Segal
----
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
    Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
----
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and
the other is getting it."
    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
----
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
    Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
----
"The truth is more important than the facts."
    Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
----
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot
read them."
    Mark Twain (1835-1910)
----
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
    Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
----
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
    Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc.
          had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
----
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
    Paul Valery (1871-1945)
----
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
    Art Buchwald
----
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
    Irvin S. Cobb
----
"He would make a lovely corpse."
    Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
----
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
    Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
----
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
    Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
----
"Woman was God's second mistake."
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
----
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood
supply to run both at the same time."
    Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
----
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
    Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
----
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
    Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
----
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
    Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
----
"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a
human imposition,
not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure;
it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."
    Bill Wulf
----
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
    Yogi Berra
----
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
    Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
----
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
    Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
----
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
----
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
    NNiccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
----
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the
dog."
    Mark Twain (1835-1910)
----
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
    Tom Clancy
----
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
----
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
    last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
----
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
----
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one."
    Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
----
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
    General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
----
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
    Mark Twain (1835-1910)
----
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
    Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
----
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
    Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
----
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
    H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
----
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
    Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
----
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees
equality of opportunity."
    Irving Kristol
----
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
    Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
----
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
    Will Rogers (1879-1935)
----
"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
    Will Rogers (1879-1935)
----
"I think it would be a good idea."
    Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
----
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
    Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
----
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty."
    Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
----
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
    Sigfried Hulzer
----
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must
wait till that other is ready."
    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
----
"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required."
    Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
----
"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency."
    Lewis Perelman
----
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
    Lewis Perelman
----
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."
    Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
----
"The average person thinks he isn't."
    Father Larry Lorenzoni
----
"Well done is better than well said."
    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
----
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
    Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
----
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything,
and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have
only wasted my time."
    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
----
"Never mistake motion for action."
    Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
----
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
    Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
----
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
    Karl Wallenda
----
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
    Tom Stoppard
----
<Jv8> programming has destroyed my ability to speak English
    Bash.org - #2575
----
[02:18:04] s7ank: i want to be one of those guys that types
"s/j&jd//.^$ueu*///djsls/sm."
and it's a perl script that turns dog crap into gold.
    Bash.org - #9347
----
<Zero> I had a totally hot chemistry teacher once. She used to always say "Uh
huh." and show her ass. Win XP is like that.
    Bash.org - #10071
----
<GrndZero> "China has already cloned human embryos"
<GrndZero> Go china
<xscope> yeah..thats what China needs..more people.
    Bash.org - #77413
----
<pronstar``afk> my kazaa preformed an illegal opperation
<cCCPehlet`> isn't that what kazaa is designed to do?
    Bash.org - #147270
----
<EnoC> sex should be like a honda slow obsene and loud enough for the neighbors
to hear
    Bash.org - #83176
----
<m[e]ntor> Does anyone know where I can buy 100 m of wireless lan cable?
<insight> Well, you could try NASA's "things not yet and never will be
invented"-department or something.
    Bash.org - #125928
----
<Kris> fuck!  someone stole all my beer and drank it and left the empties all
over my apartment!
<Kris> either that or I now know why I have a headache and no real memory of
anything after 21:00
    Bash.org - #187608
----
<billiam> crap... some one knocked over my recycle bin... there's icons all
over my desktop...
    Bash.org - #216963
----
<drewb> I still dont get how you can use linux when it doesnt have a control
panel
<jamesm> well duh, use xeyes
    Bash.org - #8677
----
* Cheez is now known as rwxr-xr-x
<MudBlud> ./Cheez
    Bash.org - #55095
----
<tag> Ouroboros: lets play Pong
<Ouroboros> Ok.
<tag> |    .
<Ouroboros> .    |
<tag> |  .
<Ouroboros>    . |
<tag> | .
<Ouroboros>      | .
<Ouroboros> Whoops
    Bash.org - #9322
----
<mironixima> hello
<mironixima> any redhat 9 users in here?
<SKaReCRoW> let's hope not
    Bash.org - #105735
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private\windows\media\avi\verinfo.16\verinfo.h:

    *       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    *       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    * !!!!!!!IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED!!!!!!!
    *       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOING SO FUCKS THE BUILD PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    *       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    *       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Seen at: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 - leaked Windows 2000 source
----
private\genx\shell\inc\prsht.w:
// we are such morons. Wiz97 underwent a redesign between IE4 and IE5

    Seen at: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 - leaked Windows 2000 source
----
private\shell\ext\ftp\ftpdrop.cpp:
//We have to do this only because Exchange is a moron.

    Seen at: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 - leaked Windows 2000 source
----
private\shell\shdoc401\unicpp\desktop.cpp:
// We are morons. We changed the IDeskTray interface between IE4

    Seen at: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 - leaked Windows 2000 source
----
private\inet\wininet\urlcache\filemgr.cxx:
// ACHTUNG!!! this is a special hack for IBM antivirus software

    Seen at: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 - leaked Windows 2000 source
----
/*
* nesting deeper and deeper, harder and harder, go, go, oh, OH, OHHHH!!
* Sorry, got carried away there.
*/
struct lo_FormElementOptionData_struct {
    Seen at: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=3364
----
/* IWDFWI */

Translation: It works, don't fuck with it.

                                             Mike Gunderloy
                                        Saturday, February 02, 2002

    Seen at: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=3364
----
// Hocus Pocus, grab the focus
    winSetFocus(...)

    Seen at: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FunnyThingsSeenInSourceCodeAndDocumentation
----
    try {
    //...
    } catch (SecurityException sex) {

    Seen at: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FunnyThingsSeenInSourceCodeAndDocumentation
----
Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as
bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated,
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
----
And as a bonus the recovery CD includes a fully-functioning tetris game.
    Tzafrir Cohen - seen on hamakor mailling list
----
These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format.
After unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor,
including all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer.
    From Microsoft's Website
----
YASFPIIAS
Yet Another SourceForge Project In Its Alpha Stage
----
Email law #1:
A second after you close your email client, a new email will arrive
----
Email law #2:
The second you open your mail client a junk mail will arrive
----
Email law #3:
When you want to send an important attachment the email will always be sent
without it.
----
Email law #4:
When you are waiting for important email, it will always located on the spam
directory.
----
Email law #5:
When you think you configured your junk mail filter correctly, a new way will
be found to send you junk.
----
#!/bin/bash
# written by darren kirby

You="R_a_dream"
Are="you_really_there?"
let Me=make love; To="u"
i="long"; FOR="you"
Not="meant_2_b"
for the_stars in the sky and the light from The moon
do #not forget...I will
        echo "I love you" # 'til I am
done #in from the heartache
declare -i am_in_love
if [[ -n $You ]] && [[ -n $Are ]] && [[ -n $Not ]]; then # I will
        echo "I love you anyway" # till
fi #naly I am free
----
" ...draining workplace productivity since 1996"
    from freecell.com
----
If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and
come help me.
    Bobcat Goldthwait
----
I bet if Zebras tasted like Zebra Cakes there would be a lot less vegetarians.
    Ben Wipperman
----
Insanity Is The Fuel For The Mind
    HalonX
----
The dark is not mysterious; it is merely dark.
    Archibald MacLeish
----
I want to know Gods thoughts, the rest are details.
    Albert Einstein
----
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
    Bill Gates
----
Its hard to expect people to think outside of the box when they cant find their
way to the other side of a dot.
    Keith J. Beange
----
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument.
    Robert Frost
----
Life is a comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel.
    Moliere
----
If you see Buddha coming down the road, kill him
    Buddha
----
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
    Lily Tomlin
----
Dream as if youll live forever. Live as if youll die today.
    James Dean
----
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
I came here to be drugged, electricuted and probed, not insulted!
    Homer Simpson
----
Humans dont know this but due to the war among the angels, heavens closed.
Nobody who has died since the beginning of time has made it in. Sorry. All
those bones just lying there! But, Hell! While heaven may be closed, I am open
all year round, even on Christmas.
    Lucifer, from the movie Prophecy
----
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
    Homer Simpson
----
Just because you are paranoid doesnt mean theyre not after you.
    Kurt Cobain
----
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
    Mark Twain
----
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity
    badfish
----
He who has seen the end of war.. is dead.
    Plato
----
I shouldve been a plumber.
    Albert Einstein
----
In war-time.. .truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a
bodyguard of lies.
    Winston Churchill
----
Listen! You smell something?
    Ray Stanz (Ghostbuster)
----
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
----
Some guy hit me in the fender the other day. I told him to go forth an prosper
fruitfully on his own. Only not in those words.
    Woody Allen
----
It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less
by baldness.
    Cicero
----
If you have Brains in your head and feet in your shoes you can do any thing
    Dr. Suess
----
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
    Aldous Huxley
----
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after me.
    Lazarus Long
----
One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to
all the adults and said, drink this and it will make you grow. They all laughed
and said I was cute. Then I went to the coat-room and hemmed all their coats.
    Steven Wright
----
I did not get my Spaghetti-Os, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
( Last words before being executed. )
    Thomas J. Grasso
----
Freedom is a feeling you celebrate with the world. Lets make cakes, not
weapons. Lets visit the plastic surgeon and replace our arms with wings. This
may cost a lot of money.
    Diesel
----
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming and
yelling like the people in his car.
----
Ive been in a bad mood for the past couple of years, so why dont you just leave
me alone?
    Wyatt Earp
----
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. When it come close to the end, it goes
faster.
    Ciara
----
Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and hell believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and hell have to touch to be sure.
    Jarger
----
They are GODS... just like Ted Nugent!
    Michael Smith
----
Whining is anger through a small opening.
    Stuart Smalley
----
Arrogance is a form of ignorance.
    Troy Johnson
----
Your random quote from 324 quotes, is:
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tellem, Certainly I can! - and get
busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
----
Why is it that when we talk to God were said to be praying, but when God talks
to us were schizophrenic?
    Lily Tomlin
----
"Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain".
    Linus Torvalds
----
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop
thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we
...
We must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country. We must
always be forward-thinking"
    George W. Bush - In a speech in 06/08/2004
----
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of spelling errors."
    The Hspell Project
----
"All I can tell you is that pictures come into my head and I write stories
about them."
    C. S. Lewis
----
"A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man
who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
    Jerome Lawrence
----
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
    Rudyard Kipling
----
"Scientists theorize about the possibilty of going to the stars, poets go
there."
    Albatross
----
"I'd deflower you, but i'm an environmentalist."
    Neils Weilander
----
"I laugh, I smile, and I take Prozac."
    Jocelyn
----
"Any couple who can blush in unison deserve each other."
    Columbine
----
"You know it's love when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead."
    Tarik John Dozier
----
"You know you've been on NetGoth too long when you're overjoyed whenever you
get email that doesn't start with a Re:"
    Lex
----
"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"Friends don't let friends...go to clubs dressed like The Crow."
----
"May the rocks below be merciless and jagged."
    Eileen (Individuation)
----
"There is no cause so noble, that one cannot find fools following it."
----
"He's YOUR god,
They're YOUR rules,
YOU burn in hell."
    Locutus
----
"Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word processor?"
"It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?"
    MacNelley, "Shoe"
----
"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
    Samuel Goldwyn
----
"Jesus save sinners and redeems them for valuable prizes!"
    Locutus
----
"Life is one big ink blot."
    Leanan Sidhe (Charlotte Ashley)
----
"But it doesn't matter because we're all doomed."
    Eric Parks
----
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely
overwhelm me."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong
direction."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
    Former Vice President Dan Quayle
----
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
    J. Danforth Quayle
----
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -
but that could change."
    Former Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
----
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a
tremendous impact on history."
    Former Vice President Dan Quayle
----
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
    Vice President Dan Quayle
----
"TIAC tech support: stealing idiots from villages everywhere."
    Purp
----
"TIAC Human resources: stealing idiots from villages everywhere."
    Ned Brickley
----
"Art is a telling of stories and drumming is one of the earliest forms of that
art."
    Neil Peart
----
"Love is the triumph of imagination over the intelligence."
    Danny Cevidanes
----
"If I hammered a three-way plug adapter into my skull and plugged my head into
a wall-socket I'd certainly be getting a lot more intellectual stimulation than
I'm getting now."
    Kara Bunting
----
"Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable."
    Fran Lebowitz
----
"If you're going to have delusions, you may as well go for the really
satisfying ones."
    Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
----
"All of God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact,
barely presentable."
    Fran Lebowitz
----
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize that by definition HALF
of the population is even STUPIDER."
    Lex
----
"I can resist everything except temptation."
    Oscar Wilde
----
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
    Philip K. Dick
----
"Coincidences are spiritual puns."
    G. K. Chesterton
----
"Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish
you weren't."
----
"I had to hit him -- he was starting to make sense."
----
"I'm having an emotional outburst!!"
----
"Hey! I don't steal - I gave that up!"
    Steve B.
----
"The closet upstairs: If you can only rub it in one direction, we carry it!"
    Lex
----
"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't
think."
----
"However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner
... sulking and nausea."
    Tom K. Ryan
----
"If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green,
baggy skin."
----
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to
reform."
    Mark Twain
----
"Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from
the wrong kind of tree."
    Professor W.
----
"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual
emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?"
----
"Sometimes I simply feel that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm the only
ashtray."
----
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
    Steven Wright
----
"A day without sunshine is like night."
----
"So many rednecks, so little time..."
    Kaos
----
"Heh heh death chicks are cool. They do weird sex stuff."
    Beavis and Butt-Head
----
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."
    Chyle
----
"It just can't be illegal to kill someone that incompetent!"
    ISP owner/sysadmin after speaking with Nynex
----
"He who cannot lie, knows not what truth is."
    Nietzche
----
"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
    Joseph Stalin
----
"It's cool! It's groovy! It's got penguins! And wibbly bits!"
    Pete Scathe
----
"Anything is art if an artist says it is."
    Marcel Ducham
----
"I'm a bisexual polyamorous pervert, but I STILL won't sleep with YOU."
    David Gerard
----
"We are painted. Fear us."
    Grimly The Invisible
----
"I'd like to change your mind by hitting it with a rock."
    They Might Be Giants
----
"If I painted my turtle black, would it be spooky?"
    Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
----
"Reality is frequently inaccurate."
    Douglas Adams
----
"Hey, this train doesn't talk!"
    Rav3n
----
"It's like a crack pipe for smart people."
    Chat room fanatic Arsenio Hall, talking about the Internet
----
"Punk isn't dead, its waiting in ambush. "
    Jeff-boy
----
"Life doesn't throw me curve balls. It just hits me with the bat."
    Jealousy
----
"Every once in a while, it's a good idea to call out 'Computer, end program,'
just to check."
    Dave Noelle
----
"High School is full of morons. Unfortunately most of them TEACH us."
    Scott Murray and Iain Conliffe
----
"I hate you all and I hope you have snacks!"
    Mystery Science Theater 3000
----
"You sir have just crossed my happy line...."
    Timmie
----
"What a cute little cemetery!"
    Edvamp
----
"Stick. Electric. Poke. Cow go Zzzt Zzzt."
    Peter Nielsen
----
"Should I come over and squeak until you fall asleep?"
    Dennis, to Noah
----
"A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn."
----
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man
hardly anything."
    Goethe
----
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
    John F. Kennedy
----
"The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity."
    Darkness, Legend
----
"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."
    Doctor Who
----
"And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down
here: it'll save funeral expenses."
    Puddleglum
----
It doesn't matter what temperature a room is; it's always room temperature
----
Not all those who wander are lost....
----
"The only religion I know is Love."
    Mahatma Ghandi
----
"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the
keys."
    C S Lewis
----
"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to
behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."
    C S Lewis
----
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our
teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only
governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
    C S Lewis
----
...Sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a
difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
    From The Matrix
----
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get
neither."
      Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), British writer, critic, "Allegory of Love," "The Chronicles of Narnia"
----
"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, unchanging. But
drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything around it is
altered."
      Ambassador Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one mind
to change the Universe, but none said it as clearly as this."
    Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"Damn. You see, it's your fault. You're bad luck. I've always said that about
him. Now, come on, come on. Look, you're a security chief. Shouldn't you be out
securing something?"
    Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien."
    Dr. Kyle to Sinclair about Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it! Can you imagine what we
could achieve together?"
"I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen."
    G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"You make very good sharks, Mr. Garibaldi. We were pretty good sharks ourselves
once, but somehow, along the way, we forgot how to bite. There was a time when
this whole quadrant belonged to us. What are we now? Twelve worlds and a
thousand monuments to past glories. Living off memories and stories, selling
trinkets."
    Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. 'See the great Centauri
Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.'"
    Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"I haven't broken the rules in a long time, doctor, so I guess .. I'm about
due."
    Takashima to Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"Michael, I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not
politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the ass. And I
wouldn't have it any other way."
    Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"There is a hole .. in your mind."
    The Assassin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas
bonus, is it?"
    Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked at me and said:
'There's a hole in your mind.'"
"An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about."
    Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest."
    Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"A poem: a story in meter or rhyme."
"Ahh. 'There once was a man from Nantucket..'"
"You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?"
    Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering"
----
"All I'm asking is that you trust me."
"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a
Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other
civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy."
    Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Appearances aside, we are two completely different species."
"A clerical error."
    Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist."
"Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist."
"Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?"
    Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Your diligence is commendable. Anything else?"
"No, I just--"
"Then, if you'll excuse me, but I'm in the middle of 15 things, all of them
annoying. Thank you for coming by."
    Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"My father always told me: 'The best way to understand someone is to fight him,
make him angry. That's when you see the real person.'"
    Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"He taught me everything I know about flying, and combat. He said to ignore the
propaganda, focus on what you see. I've never seen the Minbari fight
dishonorably. They never pull a sneak attack."
    Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"So, who are you voting for?"
"I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. .. I do not like Santiago. I always thought
that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his vice-president
has several. This, to me, is not a good combination."
    Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"We should've wiped out your kind when we had the chance."
"What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?"
    Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"You eat like a starving man."
"Seeing death has the way of doing that to me."
    Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"If you ask me, the universe is going to hell in a handbasket."
    Garibaldi to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass."
"Who? The Narn or the Centauri?"
"Yes."
    Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Mr. Garibaldi, you are sitting in my station, using my equipment. Is there a
reason for this, or to save time should I just go ahead and snap your hands off
at the wrist?"
    Ivanova to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"The Council, the Council can go to hell. And the emergency session can go to
hell. And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you to feel left out!"
    Londo to Vir Cotto in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Londo, Londo, why are you doing this?"
"Because, we are a race of lunatics and cowards."
    Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while to warm up to people,
especially when she's working."
    Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"The Earth Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen."
    The Senator to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Mr. Garibaldi! Just now, would you really have killed me?"
"Yes. Yes, I would've, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The paperwork's a
pain in the butt."
    Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Had the silly thing in reverse."
    Duck Dodgers in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line"
----
"Always this busy around here?"
"Yes. We like it that way."
    Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter"
----
Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the
Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find
ourselves fighting the state.
    Jay Terpstra
----
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
    Cardinal Richelieu
----
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in
the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
    Buddha, The Dharmapada
----
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I
intended to be.
    Douglas Adams
----
Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
    Saint Exupery
----
"Um amigo de verdade não é aquele que separa uma briga sua e sim aquele que
chega dando voadora."

"a true friend is not that one that separates to one fight its and yes that one
that arrives giving flying."
----
one thing with open source is, you can't criticize it, because they'll only
tell you to make it better
----
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where train stops. On my
desk, I have a work station...
----
Anarchy, n. Other peoples freedom.
----
Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
----
Blonde is not a hair color, it is a state of mind.
----
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
    Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
----
Nobody believed that I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They
told me computers could only do arithmetic.
    Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
----
A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for.
    Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
----
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from.
    Grace Hopper (1906-1992), in Computer Networks, 1st. ed (1981)
----
"But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!"
    Said to Grace Hopper regarding COBOL
----
Don't take life too seriously: it isn't permanent.
----
I meant what I said and I said what I meant . . . An elephant's faithful One
hundred percent.
    Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
----
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
    Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904 - 1991)
----
Every time you make something idiot-proof, some bastard re-invents the idiot!
----
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
----
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
----
Have a nice day, somewhere else.
----
I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
----
I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten
this before!
----
I'm not as stupid as you look.
----
I'm on top of the world and afraid of heights.
----
I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes
suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.
----
I don't have an attitude problem: you have a perception problem!
----
I don't need your attitude, I have one of my own!
----
"I must do something" will always solve more problems than "Something must be
done".
----
I think, therefore I am wrong.
----
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con', what is the opposite of 'progress'?
    Mark Twain
----
If the left half of the brain controls the right hand, and the right half the
left, than left-handed people are the only ones in their right minds.
----
If the sheep vote, then so must the wolves.
----
If voting changed anything it would be illegal.
----
If winners never quit, and quitters never win, what loser came up with quit
while you're ahead?
----
If you can't appreciate it, You don't deserve it.
----
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
----
If you don't like relationships that end, why start them in the first place?
----
In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.
----
In the entire history of the world, nobody ever washed a rented car.
----
It's been a long week today.
----
It's hard to answer what's wrong... when nothing is right.
----
It's mind over matter. You don't mind, it don't matter.
----
It doesn't matter whether you view the glass as half full or half empty,
there's still only half a glass worth's there.
----
It is not ignorance that is the problem, but the illusion of knowledge.
----
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
----
Never mess up an apology with an excuse.
----
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living and the other
helps you make a life.
----
Nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month.
    F.P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
----
No one's perfect; well there was this one guy, but we killed him.
----
Nothing is right in my left brain, nothing is left in my right brain.
----
People say I shouldn't frown because it uses more muscles than smiling. Then I
point out that Americans need their exercise.
----
Pessimists are just realist optimists
----
Pray for what you want. Work for what you need.
----
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write it should be
hard to understand.
----
Realists are just pessimists looking for an excuse for themselves.
----
Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams.
----
"Right" or "Wrong" is always dependent on the context.
----
"Should" and "is" are two different things.
----
Should have, would have, could have but didn't.
----
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them
speak.
----
Some people can carry a tune, and others just drag it behind them in the dirt.
----
Someday we will look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
----
Sometimes, no matter how much you do, or how much you try, someone will not
understand how much you've done until you're gone and they have no one left who
actually cares about them, who can look out for them, and who will understand.
----
Tell us what you need and we'll tell you how to get by without it.
----
Temptation is seen from a distance never near.
----
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
----
The glass isn't half empty. It isn't half full. It's just twice the size it
should be.
----
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
----
The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire.
----
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears this is true.
----
There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand trinary,
those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.
----
There are three types of people in this world: the ones who can count, and
those who can't.
----
There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the
ones who would otherwise cause you to die, and the ones who somehow manage to
do both at the same time.
----
They may not remember what you said but they will remember how you made them
feel.
----
Those who think they know-it-all are very annoying to those of us who do.
----
Violence is not the answer, however it is a pretty good guess.
----
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all
of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
----
You ever feel like the world's a giant game of musical chairs and the music has
stopped and we're the only ones without chairs?
----
You have such a pretty smile ... it's a shame the things you hide behind it.
----
"Welcome to DALNet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage
girls are undercover FBI Agents!"
    DALNet IRC Welcome Message
----
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers
into letters with ASCII and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered
graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've
realized it's a brochure
    Douglas Adams
----
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes
hurling down the highway.
    Andrew Tanenbaum
----
Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post
something wrong and wait for corrections.
    Matthew Austern
----
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.
    Blair Houghton
----
Will journalling become prevalent in the Unix world at large? Probably not.
After all, it's nonstandard.
    The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (1994)
----
The most horrifying thing about Unix is that, no matter how many times you hit
yourself over the head with it, you never quite manage to lose consciousness.
It just goes on and on
    Patrick Sobalvarro
----
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse
for some of the brain-damages of minix.
    Linus Torvalds to Tanenbaum (author of Minix)
----
VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.
    W. Davidson
----
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't
believe this to be a coincidence
    Jeremy S. Anderson
----
Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT.
    Jonathan Gilpin
----
Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
----
UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a
shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.
    Peter H. Coffin
----
Always program as if the person who will be maintaining your program is a
violent psychopath that knows where you live
    Martin Golding
----
Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and
worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
    Brian Kernighan
----
.HELP SEX: This system is a computer and as such is not able to help with
enquiries of this nature. For details on reproduction see the Xerox
documentation.
    Help text from Essex Dec10
----
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure
progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the
grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
    Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
----
I invented it, Bill made it famous
    David Bradley (wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the IBM PC)
----
Trust The Computer. The Computer is your friend.
    Paranoia RPG
----
The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into
someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out
    Jim McDonald
----
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
    Steve Wozniak
----
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently
programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
    Isaac Asimov
----
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
    Isaac Asimov
----
Software is the soul to the lifeless body of the hardware.
    Ong Lee Shyh
----
Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.
----
Humans are the best value in computers - where else can you get a non-linear
computer weighing only about 160lbs, having a billion binary decision elements,
that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour?
----
Heuristics are bug ridden by definition - if they didn't have bugs, then they'd
be algorithms.
----
You have a hardware or a software problem
    service manual for Gestetner 3240
----
NEVER EVER mess with a PCB jumper you don't understand, even if it's labelled
'SEX AND FREE BEER'.
    Dave Haynie
----
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
user-friendly... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old
brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover
    Bill Gates
----
I don't understand why cheerleaders won't talk to me. Maybe I don't throw five
touchdowns against Newport High, but let's see one of those football morons
program in assembly language.!
    Chris Lipe
----
You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with
your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.
    Juuso Heimonen
----
You can create art and beauty with a computer
    Steven Levy
----
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
    Linus Torvalds
----
When all else fails, read the instructions.
    L. Iasellio
----
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
    Donald Knuth
----
Error, keyboard not found - press F1 to continue.
    BIOS system message
----
Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.
----
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys
the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
    Norman R. Augustine
----
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of
course, in a state of sin.
    John von Neumann (1951)
----
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance
    Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
----
/* You are not expected to understand this */
    comment in the context-switching code of the V6 Unix kernel
----
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
    C. A. R. Hoare
----
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger
and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and
better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
    Rich Cook
----
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
    Alan J. Perlis
----
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
    Norm Schryer
----
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones
in movies.
    Bill Bulko
----
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
    Rob Pike (commenting on the X Window System)
----
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of
your life.
    Michael Sinz
----
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it
is bad, it is better than nothing.
    Dick Brandon
----
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach
them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
----
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error
    Weisert
----
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
    F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
----
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than
some that do
    Dennis M. Ritchie
----
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers
    Tom Lehrer
----
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult
for the Computer Scientist.
    F. L. Bauer
----
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
    Seymore Cray (on virtual memory)
----
Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.
----
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions
    Laurent Gasser
----
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they
make it easier to do don't need to be done.
    Andy Rooney
----
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex
manuals without the software.
    Arthur C. Clarke
----
Captain Elizabeth Lochley : What the hell is your problem?
Michael Garibaldi : For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you.
Captain Elizabeth Lochley : The world is full of people you don't know.
Michael Garibaldi : I worry about that all the time.
    Babylon 5
----
Captain John Sheridan : Are you trying to cheer me up?
Susan Ivanova : No sir, wouldn't dream of it.
Captain John Sheridan : Good, I hate being cheered up.
Susan Ivanova : In that case we're all going to die slow, agonizing deaths.
Captain John Sheridan : Thank you, I feel so much better now.
    Babylon 5
----
Susan Ivanova : Always finding good in every situation, Captain?
Captain John Sheridan : Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you.
Susan Ivanova : Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that?
    Babylon 5
----
Ambassador Londo Mollari : When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean,
'Oh, I think it's a little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the
bed.' No, I said it was COLD, as in, 'Oh, my left arm has snapped off like an
icicle and shattered on the floor'! This is highly inappropriate, Captain!
Captain John Sheridan : You're right. There are several other parts of your
body I'd much rather see snapped off.
    Babylon 5
----
Dukhat : When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish
thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it
needs to be.
    Babylon 5
----
Kosh Naranek : The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the
pebbles to vote.
    Babylon 5
----
Susan Ivanova : Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not
ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. *And*, if this ever happens
again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!
    Babylon 5
----
Captain Susan Ivanova : Good luck, captain. I think you're about to go where...
everyone has gone before.
    Babylon 5
----
Ambassador Vir Cotto : Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't,
it's a metaphor.
    Babylon 5
----
Lennier : They trained you well on Minbar.
Marcus Cole : They said I had a lot of repressed anger.
Lennier : And?
Marcus Cole : I'm not repressed anymore!
    Babylon 5
----
Elric : As I look at you, Ambasador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of
the stars. And I hear sounds; the sounds of billions of people calling out your
name.
Ambassador Londo Mollari : My followers?
Elric : Your victims.
    Babylon 5
----
Citizen G'Kar : Do you want to be president?
Captain John Sheridan : Yes.
Citizen G'Kar : Then put your hand on the book and say I do.
Captain John Sheridan : I do.
Citizen G'Kar : Good, let's eat.
    Babylon 5
----
Sinclair : I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen.
Ambassador Londo Mollari : Yes, and I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as
soon as the room stops spinning.
Sinclair : This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning.
Ambassador Londo Mollari : Well, you begin to see my problem.
    Babylon 5
----
Ambassador Londo Mollari : Stop eating that! You don't even know what it is.
Citizen G'Kar : Something called..."rice."
Ambassador Londo Mollari : Yes. And if it was any good, do you think they would
have been standing there, throwing it at people?
    Babylon 5
----
Major Krantz : What if we take you with us, put you on trial.
Zathras : Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras
die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
    Babylon 5
----
Citizen G'Kar : If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot
will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth... for understanding.
Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not
the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the
search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall,
the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does
not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as
God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation
of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from
us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center
of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at
our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the
way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to
illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing,
better understand the world around us.
    Babylon 5
----
Drazi Ambassador : Captain Sheridan! We thought you were dead!
Captain John Sheridan : I was. I'm better now.
    Babylon 5
----
Marcus Cole : [after beating someone for information] Its like I always say,
you get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word.
    Babylon 5
----
Susan Ivanova : Ambassador, do you really want to know what's going on down
there?
Ambassador Londo Mollari : Yes, absolutely!
Susan Ivanova : Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day!
    Babylon 5
----
Citizen G'Kar : With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will
know pain...
Na'Toth #2 : And you will know fear.
Citizen G'Kar : And then you will die. Have a pleasant flight.
    Babylon 5
----
Lt. Kemmer: I demand you open a channel to Earth at once.
Susan Ivanova : I'm a Lieutenant Commander on Earth Force, Major. I don't take
demands. If you will request, I will consider it.
Lt. Kemmer: Very well, then. I request that you open a channel to Earthdome.
Susan Ivanova : Request denied. Have a nice day.
    Babylon 5
----
Sinclair : Ready?
Delenn : Why is it that your people always ask someone if they are ready right
before you are about to do something massively unwise?
Sinclair : Tradition.
    Babylon 5
----
Captain John Sheridan : Delenn, I have been working up a good mad all day and I
am NOT about to let you ruin it by agreeing with me!
    Babylon 5
----
Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova : I'll *gain* weight!
Dr. Stephen Franklin : At first, yes.
Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova : Fine! All my life I've fought against
imperialism; now *I'm* the expanding Russian frontier!
Dr. Stephen Franklin : Yes, but with very nice borders.
    Babylon 5
----
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end
the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the
suffering of one... ME!!!
----
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
    Sir Henry Wotton
----
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
    Calvin Toffler
----
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's
on.
    Joseph Heller from Catch 22
----
"People want more.  Thought is overrated.  Look back at history, my dear
Socrates, and you will see that all the powerful ideas that have moved men most
were simpleminded and superficial, never deep."
    Joseph Heller from Catch 22
----
Man is by nature a political animal.
    Aristotle ,  Politics
----
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the
establishment that your ideas will upset.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo ,  The College Blue Book
----
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
    Margaret Mead
----
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of
things that never were, and ask why not?
    Robert F. Kennedy
----
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
    George Santiano
----
The gods too are fond of a joke.
    Aristotle
----
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his
life by altering his attitude.
    William James
----
To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can
possess.
    Glenn Holm
----
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In
all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As
long as ever you can.
    John Wesley
----
To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal
enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.
It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
    from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are
correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of
the life of Muad'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time:
born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most
special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not
be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen
years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.
    from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression
to develop psychic muscles.
    from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
'Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no
matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the
baliset. It's not for fighting.'
    counsel of Gurney Halleck to young Paul.
----
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the
mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the
mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
    from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
----
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the
basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This
is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.
    from "Conversations with Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
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<_molly_> i only shower when i A: smell, or B: fall into the mudd
<melf> Does B happen a lot ?
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( l008com) Hey does anyone know how David Blaine levitates?
( LoganCale) There are two ways.
( LoganCale) One way he's on a cable and they digitally edit it out.
( l008com) no he's on ABC thats not cable
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<|P0SiX|> you version'd me because?
<Valin> Because I wanted to see if you are one of those damn Microsoft OS
users. You are, and you shouldn't have any nick that has anything to do with
the better OSes (the free, unix-like OSes) because anything affiliated with
those OSes are too good for the likes of you to soil
<|P0SiX|> [Valin VERSION reply]: mIRC32 v5.41
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<DigiGnome> Real life should have a fucking search function, or something.
<DigiGnome> I need my socks.
    Seen on Bash.org - #1660
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<+kritical> christin: you need to learn how to figure out stuff yourself..
<+Christin1> how do i do that
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Panny: I could sell my soul back to my ex for a computer.
RebelPrincess: don't.
Panny: I could sell my soul to Microsoft for a computer.
RebelPrincess: don't!!!!
    Seen on Bash.org - #9262
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<Pi> Violence solves everything.
<Pi> If you have a problem that violence doesn't solve, then you're not using
enough of it.
    Seen on Bash.org - #43724
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<wecell> new apples look fairly interesting, but i'd hate to buy into something
that is going to CRASH all the time.
<DigDug> wecell : What are you using right now?
<wecell> i've always used windows machines.
    Seen on Bash.org - #16
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@(DonoftheDead) They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards you hear satanic
messages. That's nothing, because if you play it forwards it installs Windows.
    Seen on Bash.org - #83891
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<Soybomb> On the way home yesterday, I saw a car with a vanity plate that read:
LINUX OS
<Soybomb> I really wished for a truck with a WINDOWS plate to ram it...sadly,
no.
<Druuna> unfortunately, you'd probably crash before hitting it...
    Seen on Bash.org - #148121
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<cheapo> haha, this screen appeared on my windows that said "time before
shutdown: 60 seconds"
<cheapo> so i turned the windows clock 2 years backwards and now it says "time
before shutdown: 729 days" :D:D
<cheapo> i just love windows :D
    Seen on Bash.org - #227455
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* Reddog is now known as You
* You have performed an Illegal operation, please Restart Windows
* You is now known as Reddog
* Desh has quit IRC (Quit: brb gotta restart windows...stupid trillian yelling
at me)
    Seen on Bash.org - #238969
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<RaZ> I should burn my windows ME CD
<Thrawn> no piracy
<RaZ> I mean BURN it
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<Neon[UK]>im considering using redhat as my desktop pc
<Neon[UK]>its just so much better
<Neon[UK]>windows error: OMFG THERZZ AN ERRROR!!111 WTF??!?!?!
<Neon[UK]>linux error: hello there, you have an error. here's a detailed list
of whats gone wrong and he's how to fix it, would you like some coffee?
    Seen on Bash.org - #65749
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<Psinic> windows 98 is like that drunk uncle that thinks he knows everything
and always tries to convince you he was a CIA operative, and when you argue, he
gets violent and then passes out.
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<Frag_> whats a good bench mark program?
<Ghaleon> Frag_: deltree /y c:\windows
<Ghaleon> the longer it takes, the slower your computer is
<Ghaleon> (ps, just a joke)
<Frag_> uh can i undo deltree?
    Seen on Bash.org - #2884
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<Ramza> well how come it's down for me?
<Ramza> and don't say because of windows
<Cyan683> Does it give an error, or does it say "Unknown Host"?
<Ramza> yes
<Cyan683> .....
<Cyan683> YES IS NOT AN ANSWER TO "A OR B?"
* Cyan683 sets mode: +i
* Ramza was kicked by Cyan683 (Wham!    --  Kibou to Hikari no script)
* Cyan683 sets mode: -i
* Ramza (spoon@anandtech.com) has joined #starmen
<Ramza> no?
    Seen on Bash.org - #36672
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krlgol2: Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A
Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets,
asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch,"
because of an unfortunate error in translation.
    Seen on Bash.org - #395262
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"Windows - when reboot is the only option"
----
DO you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.
    from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
----
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that
makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
    from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
"Don't make me laugh Starfleet ... and don't make me pull rank on you either."
    B'Elanna to Harry, from Star Trek Voyager -
----
"Commander Chakotay was just showing me how to contact my animal guide."
Janeway to Torres
"I hope you had more success with your animal guide than I had with mine."
Torres to Janeway
"B'Elanna is the only person I know who tried to kill her animal guide"
Chakotay
    From Star Trek Voyager
----
B'Elanna: "Harry."
Harry: "B'Elanna, shouldn't you be in engineering?  What are you doing here?"
B'Elanna: "Just answer one question, Starfleet.  Where is here?"
Harry: "What?"
B'Elanna: "Where am I?"
    From Star Trek Voyager
----
"At ease, Ensign, before you sprain something"
    Janeway, From Star Trek Voyager
----
<watashi-x> Oh my God! Are you attemping to DoS me?
<Polymer> WTF are you talking about dumb ass
<Polymer> I can't get into your MS-DOS
    Seen at Bash.org - #14
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<wecell> new apples look fairly interesting, but i'd hate to buy into something
that is going to CRASH all the time.
<DigDug> wecell : What are you using right now?
<wecell> i've always used windows machines.
    Seen at Bash.org - #16
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<pezmasta> my band is gonna be called: rage against the answering machine
    Seen at Bash.org - #30
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[17:05] *** D1 sets mode: +o C-Rock
<D1> oh wait, I was trying to kick you.
    Seen at Bash.org - #33
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on
believing as we already do.
    James Harvey Robinson
----
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I
either choose the truth or I am deceit.
    Sovereign
----
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow
strong by conflict.
    William Ellery Channing
----
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us,
long and long ago.
    Rudyard Kipling
----
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
    Cicero
----
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and
leave a trail.
----
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.
    A. P. Gouthey
----
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
    President Lyndon Johnson
----
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
    Roger Babson
----
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
    Slovenian Proverb
----
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the
same reason.
    Mark Twain
----
A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on
another computer.
----
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
    Bob Wells
----
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
    Confucius ,  Analects
----
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things
worth reading about or do things worth writing about.
    Ben Franklin
----
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
    Dag Hammarskjold
----
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
    Yiddish proverb
----
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
    Confucius, The Confucian Analects
----
A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some
indefinite point in the future.
    George S. Patton ,  General
----
"What's important is not that we can conceive the idea, but that when we
actually test it on people you discover it doesn't work... your intuition is
wrong."
    Daniel M. Russell (IBM Almaden / Xerox PARC)
----
Torres: "It may be the warriors who get the glory but it's the engineers who
build societies, don't forget that."
    From Star Trek Voyager 7x10 - Flash And Blood #2
----
Dying for Amber is easy...but living for something... that's something much
more difficult.
    Bleys from One year leater - The chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny
----
Everything seemed hopeless... and then, it got worse.
    Benedict from One year leater - The chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny
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I'm working on it from time to time. I might even finish it by the end of the
year (I just don't know which year:)
    Alex Michailov - seen on his site http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~avm/Amber.shtml
----
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.

    Hamlet (III.i.64-68)
----
There's something to be said for relatives......it has to be said because it's
unprintable!
    Albert Einstein
----
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north
polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
    Edward BulwerLytton
----
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
    Goethe
----
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
    Confucius
----
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
    Terry Cohen
----
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to
demonstrate.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose
coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
    Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
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<SenorWeird> ugh. I need help
<Duckie5147> with what?
<SenorWeird> I got to the end of a page in this novel i'm reading and I hit the
"page down" button on my keyboard.
<Duckie5147> hahaha
<Duckie5147> you need to read things not one the screen
<SenorWeird>  and when the page didn't turn, I got pissed and grabbed the mouse
and was like where's the damn scroll bar"
<SenorWeird>  and then I realized...."you're reading a book. let the mouse go."
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<@Exor[B-AFK]> yeah apparently a teacher in britain was arrested. on him they
found a pencil, eraser, ruler, protractor and compass. They said he was part of
the Al Gebra network, and that he had weapons of math instruction!
<@Exor[B-AFK]> HA HA.
* Exor[B-AFK] shoots self
    Seen at Bash.org - #98701
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(Skyler) Alright
(Skyler) Everyone ready?
*** rarrzeroEXE (Hat@1Cust73.tnt3.seymour.in.da.uu.net) Quit (cosmos.esper.net
chocobo.esper.net)
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(Comic-San) ....
    Seen at Bash.org - #23272
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his_madjesty: hey, I wake up in the middle of the night for all sorts of
reasons.
his_madjesty: mostly to get up off the computer chair and go to bed.
    Seend at Bash.org - #448646
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Calvin: "Any monsters under my bed tonight ?!"
Monster: "NOPE!" "NO!" "UHUH"
Calvin: "Well there'd better NOT be! I'd hate to have to torch one with my
flame thrower!"
Hobbes: "You have a flame thrower ??"
Calvin: "They lie I lie"
    From CCalvin and Hobbes
----
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
    Chinese proverb
----
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do
something stupid.
    Art Spander
----
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds
the universe together.
    Carl Zwanzig
----
<DigDug> looks like microsoft is extending http
<DigDug> HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
<DigDug> Internet Information Services
<OxOO> that must be visual http++
    Seen at Bash.org - 764
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<GaRlic> how you like my new name?
<drunkers> it stinks
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<SomeGuyYouDontKnow> theres a fatal error between the keyboard and the back of
the chair
<Yomanman> Norton Crashguard had to shut downthe chair. all unsaved comfort
settings have been lost
<SomeGuyYouDontKnow> hit any user to continue
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* peer stares at CCOutlaw[fagitz]
*** Quits: CCOutlaw[fagitz] (outlawtorn@FFChat-24919.ipt.aol.com) (Connection
reset by peer)
<peer> :D
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<IsamuDyson> i think they need to get out and meet some people
<BloodFromStone> Hey, I won't allow that kind of talk in here.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
    Katherine Hepburn
----
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
    Larry Leissner
----
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond
of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
    Voltaire
----
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
    Theodore Roosevelt
----
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them
misunderstood.
    H. L. Mencken
----
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
    Jeremy Bentham
----
Never cut what you can untie.
    Joseph Joubert
----
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
    Wilson Mizner
----
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
----
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to
know something.
    Wilson Mizner
----
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
    Wilson Mizner
----
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on
the way down.
    Wilson Mizner
----
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's
research.
    Wilson Mizner
----
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
    Wilson Mizner
----
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark;
professionals built the Titanic
----
just eat all the people on your way up, cause they will eat your heart out on
your way down
    Quaqua
----
The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination
    Elim Garak
----
Treason, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder
    Elim Garak
----
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma
    Winston Churchill
----
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you
will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot,
therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless
and ineffectual.
    Frank Herbert ,  The Dosadi Experiment
----
"Why do you test for humans?" he asked.
"To set you free."
"Free?"
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in hope that this would set
them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind," Paul quoted.
"Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said.
    From Dune
----
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
----
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to
decide.
    Napoleon I
----
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values
-- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has
spiritual control.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
**  WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH  **
**  TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH,  GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE  **
**  INNUENDO  INTO  YOUR  C.V.  RIGHT  BEFORE  A  JOB  INTERVIEW!  **
**  DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE.  **
    Seen at media-wiki released notes
----
"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different
scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get
ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet
agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a
million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens,
it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein,
Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for
nothing unless we go to the stars."
    Commander Sinclair, Babylon 5 "Infection"
----
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
    Will Durant
----
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your
energies on answers -- not excuses.
    William Arthur Ward
----
"I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go, to read or write a bit or byte. I/O, I/O, I/O"
----
"There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who know ternary, those
who don't and those who confuse it with binary."
----
"Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable."
    Ralph Johnson
----
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys
the second law of thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
    Norman R. Augustine
----
"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
    Computer analyst to programmer
----
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent
things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible
with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
    Donald Knuth
----
"... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to
shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in
the small and to see something in the large."
    An interview with Donald Knuth (http://home.hccnet.nl/h.vink/lead.htm). Dr. Dobb's Journal, pages 16-22, April 1996
----
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is
everything else we do.
    Donald Knuth - Foreword to the book A=B
----
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been
sorted with the help of a computer.
    Donald Knuth - "Sorting and Searching"
----
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in
programming.
    Donald Knuth - "Computer Programming as an Art" 1974 Turing Award lecture
----
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language
will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name
and now I am looking for a suitable language."
    Donald Knuth
----
"... in fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let
loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
    Donald Knuth
----
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
    Donald Knuth
----
"An algorithm must be seen to be believed."
    Donald Knuth
----
Fiona: "You didn't slay the dragon?"
Shrek: "It's on my to-do list."
    From Shrek
----
Donkey: "Are we there yet?"
Shrek: "Yes."
Donkey: "Really?"
Shrek: "NOOOO!"
    From Shrek 2
----
Puss in Boots: "STOP Ogre! I have misjudged you."
Shrek: "Join the club, we have jackets."
    From Shrek 2
----
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
1500 years ago, everyone knew that the Earth was the center of the universe.
500 years ago, everyone knew that the Earth was flat. 15 minutes ago, you knew
that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll "know" tomorrow.
    Agent K - Man In Black
----
Gentlemen, congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years
of government training.
    Agent Z - Man In Black
----
"War is good for business." 34th Rule of Acquisition
"Peace is good for business." 35th Rule of Acquisition
    Faringi rules of Acquisition - Star Trek
----
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.
    Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
----
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have
only one course of action.
    Frank Herbert
----
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
    Albert Einstein
----
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
    John Lehman
----
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
    Groucho Marx
----
I don't have a C compiler on my system.  How can I compile perl?

Since you don't have a C compiler, you're doomed and your vendor should be
sacrificed to the Sun gods.  But that doesn't help you.
    Seen at perldoc
----
A poor workman blames his tools.
----
You can't grease a "pig" so many times that he can't be greased one more time.
----
You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play
----
You need to bait the hook to catch the fish.
----
You'll always miss 100% of the [basketball] shots you don't take.
----
You have to crawl before you can walk.
----
You can't milk a cow with your hands in your pants.
----
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
----
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
----
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
----
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but
it doesn't get you anywhere
----
Wide ears and short tongue are the best.
----
Why pay for the cow when the milk is free?"
----
Who keeps company with the wolves, will learn to howl.
----
While the cat is away, the mice will play.
----
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
----
Fortunes exist among leftovers.
----
It's easier to make it than thinking about it.
----
Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not
trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
    From Dune: House Corrino, Cammar Pilru
----
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearence. Do not underestimate
the power of impression over reality.
    From Dune: House Harkonnen, Crown Prince Raphael Corrino
----
Discovery is dangerous but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed
never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
    From Dune: House Harkonnen, Planetologist Pardot Kynes
----
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
    From Darwi Odrade, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is
the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we
create, there are always other forces at work.
    From Darwi Odrade, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
Intelligence takes chance with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not
only possible but also necessary.
    From Darwi Odrade, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your
liberty.
    From The Coda, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
We witness a passing phase of eternity. Important things happen but some people
never notice. Accidents intervene. You are not present at episodes. You depend
on reports. And people shutter their minds. What good are reports? History in a
news account? Preselected at an editorial conference, digested and excreted by
prejudice? Accounts you need seldom come from those who make history. Diaries,
memoirs and autobiographies are subjective forms of special pleading. Archives
are crammed with such suspect stuff.
    From Darwi Odrade, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a
religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable
or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired.
    From Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. If it tastes bitter, spit it
out. That's what our earliest ancestors did.
    From The Coda, Dune - Chapterhouse
----
"In a world full surrounded by Windows, we're handing out rocks"
    BeOS Radio
----
"Rip. Mix. Burn"
    Apple Computer
----
You can't appreciate Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon
    General Chang (Star Trek VI)
----
Please Captain, not in front of the Klingons.
    Spock, to Kirk (Star Trek V)
----
Humour. It is a difficult concept
    Saavik (Star Trek II)
----
I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers
    Kirk - Generations
----
You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?
    Kirk - Generations
----
Geordi: "Data... I made that joke seven years ago"
Data: "I know.... I just got it!"
    From Generations
----
Normal is what everyone else is and you are not.
    Dr. Soran, to Geordi
----
Rumours of my assimilation have been greatly exagerrated
    Picard - First Contact
----
Do I annoy you?
    Dr. Bashir, Deep Space Nine, The Storyteller
----
The Borg wouldn't know fun if they assimilated an amusement park.
    B'Elanna Torres, Voyager
----
Truth is an excuse for the lack of imagination.
    Garak, Deep Space Nine
----
Sometimes it's possible to make no mistakes and still lose. It is not a
weakness. It is life.
    Jean-Luc Picard, Next Generation, Peak Performance
----
I can't disappear any more than you could win a beauty contest.
    Q to Worf, Next Generation, ("Deja Q")
----
The one place where money come before work is in the dictionary
----
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are
so...very...pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
Mal: "I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from
being cheerful." (he smiles at her, never stopping working) "Sometimes you just
wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
Mal: "If anyone gets nosy, just...you know... shoot 'em. "
Zoe: "Shoot 'em?"
Mal: "Politely."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
Book: "I brought you some supper but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very
catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
Mal: "Well, you were right about this being a bad idea."
Zoe: "Thanks for sayin', sir."
    serenity, parts 1 & 2, From Firefly
----
<billyblacktop> yo yo yo, sup my niggas?
<jimmy2toes>  your not black
<billyblacktop>  how do you know that?
<jimmy2toes>  I hacked your webcam, and now I can see you
<billyblacktop>  yeah right you cant do that
<jimmy2toes> I can and I did.
<billyblacktop>  ok then what color hair do I have
<jimmy2toes> Hmmm, let me zoom in a bit. Blonde, and you are white, about 6'
2", your room has an emenim poster and your bedspread is yellow and blue.
<billyblacktop>  holy fuck man im telling the cops
Quits: {billyblacktop} (billyb@235.253.473.232) (Quit:)
<jimmy2toes>  LMAO, that was a friend of mine, I just set up his comp today,
and showed him mirc, he doesnt know my nick, what a fat tool!!!
<nellcarterlookalike>  A fat tool indeed.
    Seen at Bash.org - #16564
----
<Amnesiac> there's something like awk in perl?
    Seen at Bash.org - #75470
----
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.
    George Orwell
----
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
There is nothing wrong with the software that rm won't cure.
    Arnie Romo
----
Think big.  Pollute the Mississippi.
----
There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes.
----
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase
it.
    Glaser and Way
----
The Jewel of Judgement, Dworkin's text editor.
And people complain about having to learn vi!
----
The Jewel of Judgement, Dworkin's text editor.
And you thought Emacs had a lot of options.
----
The Jewel of Judgement, Dworkin's operating system.
And people complain about Unix having weird command names!
----
/earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can.
----
Windows Error 004 -- Operator Fell Asleep While Waiting
----
We are Microsoft...
OS/2 is irrelevant.
UNIX is irrelevant.
Openness is futile.
Prepare to be assimilated.
----
Your lucky number is 3552664958674928.  Watch for it everywhere.
----
Drive defensively.  Buy a tank.
----
"We are all individuals.  We are all individuals.  We are all individuals..."
----
Monday, n.:
        In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
        -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
----
Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
----
"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
    Woody Allen
----
CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh..
----
A cult is a religion with no political power.
    Tom Wolfe
----
C Code.  C Code run.  Run, Code, RUN!
----
Paranoia is what the lazy call wisdom.
----
Remember -- we're only simulating logic.
----
The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not
mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy
at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, 'If you'd done that in the
movie, you'd have won an Oscar, girl!
    Chris Rock
----
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best
golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold
the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't
want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush',
'Dick', and 'Colon'.
    Chris Rock
----
A man commented to his lunch companion: "My wife had a funny dream last night.
She dreamed she'd married a millionaire." "You're lucky," sighed the companion.
"My wife dreams that in the daytime."
    Sam Ewing
----
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
    Albert Einstein
----
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
    Albert Einstein
----
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
    Albert Einstein
----
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you
to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you
subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
    James Dale Davidson
----
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to
want to force it upon anyone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with
Christianity is the Christians
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but
that they try to make us do as they think
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that
its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been
more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you
would lie if you were in his place.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and
despoilers, not with useful men
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
Very few of us are what we seem.
    Agatha Christie
----
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it
    Agatha Christie
----
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price
    Agatha Christie
----
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
    Agatha Christie
----
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
    Agatha Christie
----
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
    Agatha Christie
----
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
    Agatha Christie
----
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent
victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy
second.
    Agatha Christie
----
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
    Douglas Adams
----
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I
needed to be.
    Douglas Adams
----
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
    Douglas Adams
----
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
    Douglas Adams
----
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
    Douglas Adams
----
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
    Douglas Adams
----
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
    Stanislaw J. Lec
----
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
    Stanislaw J. Lec
----
The first condition of immortality is death.
    Stanislaw J. Lec
----
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you
begin.
    Stanislaw J. Lec
----
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
    Jane Wagner
----
random girl: hey!
me: ...hi?
me: who is this?
random girl: Jessica, I saw u on myspace
random girl: ur hot
me: thanks
random girl: np
me: this girl keeps bugging me, but I don't want to talk to her
me: what should I do?
random girl: make up sum excuse, like ur mom is kickin u off or sumthing
me: oh alright
me: I have to go
me: my mom is kicking me off
me: bye
    Seen at Bash.org, #520670
----
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand
    Frank Herbert
----
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings
total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and
through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its
path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
    Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune"
----
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the
flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
    Frank Herbert, Dune (First Law of Mentat)
----
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only
knowledge is dangerous.
    Dune Messiah
----
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
    Frank Herbert (1920-1986) from Dune, Manual of Muad Dib by Princess Irulan
----
"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
    Frank Herbert (1920-1986), from Dune
----
Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the
seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin
goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth
endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the
place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and
resourcefulness."
    from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
----
You have read that Muad'Dib had no playmates his own age on Caladan. The
dangers were too great. But Muad'Dib did have wonderful companion-teachers.
There was Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior. You will sing some of
Gurney's songs as you read along in this book. There was Thufir Hawat, the old
Mentat Master of Assassins, who struck fear even into the heart of the Padishah
Emperor. There were Duncan Idaho, the Swordmaster of the Ginaz; Dr. Wellington
Yueh, a name black in treachery but bright in knowledge; the Lady Jessica, who
guided her son in the Bene Gesserit Way, and--of course--the Duke Leto, whose
qualities as a father have long been overlooked.
    from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth
and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the
way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he
held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there--a
man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory
of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father?
    from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
----
With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing
implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its full fruition.
The wisdom of seeding the known universe with a prophecy pattern for the
protection of B.G. personnel has long been appreciated, but never have we seen
a condition-utextremis with more ideal mating of person and preparation. The
prophetic legends had taken on Arrakis even to the extent of adopted labels
(including Reverend Mother, canto and respondu, and most of the Shari-a
panoplia propheticus). And it is generally accepted now that the Lady Jessica's
latent abilities were grossly underestimated.
    from "Analysis: The Arrakeen Crisis" by the Princess Irulan
----
"Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!" goes the refrain. "A million deaths were not enough for
Yueh!"
    from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of
Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the
others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was
in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could
learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and
how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every
experience carries its lesson.
    from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
What had the Lady Jessica to sustain her in her time of trial? Think you
carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road
followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just
a little to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot
see the mountain."
    from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
----
It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils of Arrakis, that he
walked heedlessly into the pit. Would it not be more likely to suggest he had
lived so long in the presence of extreme danger he misjudged a change in its
intensity? Or is it possible he deliberately sacrificed himself that his son
might find a better life? All evidence indicates the Duke was a man not easily
hoodwinked.
    from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
----
Over the exit of the Arrakeen landing field, crudely carved as though with a
poor instrument, there was an inscription that Muad'Dib was to repeat many
times. He say it that first night on Arrakis, having been brought to the ducal
command post to participate in his father's first full staff conference. The
words of the inscription were a plea to those leaving Arrakis, but they fell
with dark import on the eyes of a boy who had just escaped a close brush with
death. They said: "O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your
prayers."
    from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
On that first day when Muad'Dib rode through the streets of Arrakeen with his
family, some of the people along the way recalled the legends and the prophecy
and they ventured to shout: "Mahdi!" But their shout was more a question than a
statement, for as yet they could only hope he was the one foretold as the Lisan
al-Gaib, the Voice from the Outer World. Their attention was focused, too, on
the mother, because they had heard she was a Bene Gesserit and it was obvious
to them that she was like the other Lisan al-Gaib.
    from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in
which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."
    from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
My father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by the hand one day and I sensed in
the ways my mother had taught me that he was disturbed. He led me down the Hall
of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong
resemblance between them--my father and this man in the portrait--both with
thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes.
"Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it
came time for this man to choose a woman." My father was 71 at the time and
looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was but 14, yet I remember
deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his
son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.
    "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
----
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in
part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences
greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is
projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is
what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that
permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional
greatness will destroy a man.
    from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
"There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
    from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind
of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
    Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides died a meteor
streaked across the skies above his ancestral palace on Caladan.
    the Princess Irulan: "Introduction to A Child's History of Muad'Dib"
----
O Seas of Caladan, O people of Duke Leto-- Citadel of Leto fallen, Fallen
forever...
    from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
When my father, the Padishah Emperor, heard of Duke Leto's death and the manner
of it, he went into such a rage as we had never before seen. He blamed my
mother and the compact forced on him to place a Bene Gesserit on the throne. He
blamed the Guild and the evil old Baron. He blamed everyone in sight, not
excepting even me, for he said I was a witch like all the others. And when I
sought to comfort him, saying it was done according to an older law of
self-preservation to which even the most ancient rulers gave allegiance, he
sneered at me and asked if I thought him a weakling. I saw then that he had
been aroused to this passion not by concern over the dead Duke but by what that
death implied for all royalty. As I look back on it, I think there may have
been some prescience in my father, too, for it is certain that his line and
Muad'Dib's shared common ancestry.
    from "In My Father's House," by the Princess Irulan
----
Muad'Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of
this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you
are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so,
Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He
tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one
word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us
"The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a
narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe
course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."
    from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
----
At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
    from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
We came from Caladan--a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no
need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind--we
could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men
have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life.--we went soft, we lost
our edge.
    from "Muad'Dib: Conversations" by the Princess Irulan
----
Family life of the Royal Creche is difficult for many people to understand, but
I shall try to give you a capsule view of it. My father had only one real
friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring, the genetic-eunuch and one of
the deadliest fighters in the Imperium. The Count, a dapper and ugly little
man, brought a new slave-concubine to my father one day and I was dispatched by
my mother to spy on the proceedings. All of us spied on my father as a matter
of self-protection. One of the slave-concubines permitted my father under the
Bene Gesserit-Guild agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, but
the intrigues were constant and oppressive in their similarity. We became
adept, my mother and sisters and I, at avoiding subtle instruments of death. It
may seem a dreadful thing to say, but I'm not at all sure my father was
innocent in all these attempts. A Royal Family is not like other families. Here
was a new slave-concubine, then, red-haired like my father, willowy and
graceful. She had a dancer's muscles, and her training obviously had included
neuro-enticement. My father looked at her for a long time as she postured
unclothed before him. Finally he said: "She is too beautiful. We will save her
as a gift." You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in
the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly
threats to us all.
    "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
----
This Fremen religious adaptation, then, is the source of what we now recognize
as "The Pillars of the Universe," whose Qizara Tafwid are among us all with
signs and proofs and prophecy. They bring us the Arrakeen mystical fusion whose
profound beauty is typified by the stirring music built on the old forms, but
stamped with the new awakening. Who has not heard and been deeply moved by "The
Old Man's Hymn"?
I drove my feet through a desert
Whose mirage fluttered like a host.
Voracious for glory, greedy for danger,
I roamed the horizons of al-Kulab,
Watching time level mountains
In its search and its hunger for me.
And I saw the sparrows swiftly approach,
Bolder than the onrushing wolf.
They spread in the tree of my youth.
I heard the flock in my branches.
And was caught on their beaks and claws!
    from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
----
Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of the
unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "wave
form" (as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet
shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the
act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of
weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a
diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife?
    "Private Reflections on Muad'Dib" by the princess Irulan
----
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called
"spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing
and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
    from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
My father, the Padishah Emperor, was 72 yet looked no more than 35 the year he
encompassed the death of Duke Leto and gave Arrakis back to the Harkonnens. He
seldom appeared in public wearing other than a Sardaukar uniform and a Burseg's
black helmet with the Imperial lion in gold upon its crest. The uniform was an
open reminder of where his power lay. He was not always that blatant, though.
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in
these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a
man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. You must
remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that reached back
into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. Was this not the most
terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed her Sister Superiors
where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History
already has answered.
    "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
----
God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
    from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
----
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
    Chinese Proverb
----
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may
have to eat them.
----
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
    Stephen Leacock
----
Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a
succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
    Douglas Adams
----
"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as
judging the value of the result."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), Source: preface to Paradise Lost.
----
"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the
playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on
the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more
than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a
conscientious revolution­ary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying
cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the
benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as
one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will
see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably
real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the
future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell,
(which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It
foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped
onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the
play—"Halt!"
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know
when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say,
before you have finished reading this paragraph."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if
it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives
Donne's question "What if this present were the world's last night?" is equally
relevant."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by
the reflection that "this present" might be "the world's last night"; sober
work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is
not."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
"For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds laboring in their
vocations, whether they were merely going out to feed the pigs or laying good
plans to deliver humanity a hundred years hence from some great evil. The
curtain has indeed now fallen. Those pigs will never in fact be fed, the great
campaign against White Slavery or Governmental Tyranny will never in fact
proceed to victory. No matter; you were at your post when the Inspection came."
    Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963), The World's Last Night
----
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty
tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
    George W. Bush
----
waaayp - We Are Anxiously Awaiting Your Patches
    Defined by oliebol
----
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one
value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
    Milton R. Sapirstein
----
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
    Confucius
----
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams ,  Mostly Harmless
----
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something
else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
----
The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons:
partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little
muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway.
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
----
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
    Robert Heinlein ,  The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
----
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the
unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and
spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from
fiddling with it.
    Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love (1972)
----
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
    Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
----
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man.
How's that again? I missed something.
    Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
----
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods
have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
    Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
----
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
    Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
----
I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me.
    Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Beyond this Horizon
----
Where facts are few, experts are many.
    Donald R. Gannon
----
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where
you found them.
    Robert Fulghum
----
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who
is absolutely good for nothing.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    Sir Winston Churchill ,  My Early Life (1930)
----
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --
or nothing.
    Nancy Astor
----
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No
idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you
can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a
pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but
give the time when you are asked.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it,
all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
----
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a
closet.
    Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
----
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
    Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750
----
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his son, October 9, 1746
----
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than
Method.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
You must look into people, as well as at them.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon
her person.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
History is a confused heap of facts.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out
and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill
manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
----
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your
emotional attachment to that opinion.
----
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
    Chinese Proverb
----
The 50-50-90 rule:  Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right,
there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
----
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any
catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still
there.
    P. J. O'Rourke ,  Parliament of Whores (1991)
----
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool
trusts either of them.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by
anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be
bought and sold are legislators.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
    P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores
----
There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas
are interested in dogs.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then
again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience."
It makes me feel less stupid.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller,
richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party
that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then
you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to
enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent
champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If
we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for
drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
----
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to
keep.
    Scott Adams
----
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
    Elizabeth I
----
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
----
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our
own existence.
    Aristotle ,  Nicomachean Ethics
----
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
    David Russell
----
I'm a soldier, not a diplomat.  I can only tell the truth.
    Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.9
----
Morfey is a virus don't add to contacts.
----
"It also makes C++ programmers feel like they know what's going on..."
    Seen at perlmod.pod
----
A Perl module would prefer that you stay out of its living room because you
weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun.
    Seen at "Programming Perl" book
----
$cnt = $sky =~ tr/*/*/;     # count the stars in $sky
    Seen at "Programming Perl" book
----
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
    From 1984
----
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the
human race come to an end.
    Joseph Conrad
----
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
    Aristophanes ,  Birds (414 BC)
----
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
    Al McGuire
----
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
    Charles F. Kettering
----
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
    George Orwell
----
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced
beyond doubt that they are right.
    Laurens Van der Post ,  The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
----
Oppression can only survive through silence.
    Carmen de Monteflores
----
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority
of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
    Saint Thomas Aquinas
----
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the
difference.
----
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
    Samuel Johnson
----
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
    A. A. Milne (Eeyore) ,  Pooh's Little Instruction Book
----
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far
above him.
    Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
----
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
    A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
----
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
    A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
----
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but
rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the
Forest that was left out by mistake.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him
or whether you don't.
    Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find
sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different
when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff
that's blown into their heads by mistake.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It
may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening
to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
    Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
----
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries.
    A. A. Milne
----
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the
name.
    A.A. Milne
----
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
    R. D. Lang
----
* Now talking in #Democrats
<Gunman> is anybody here?
<Gunman> hmm...everybody's an op, but nobodys doing anything...
<Gunman> so im definately in the #democrats channel...
    Seen on Bash.org - #609999
----
<Numi> hey, can you guys just check a site out and tell me if it's up?
<Haddock> depends, what is it?
<Numi> just my apache server, it works for me but seems to be down for anyone
else
<Haddock> alright, what's the address?
<Numi> http://127.0.0.1
<Haddock> ......
<Haddock> ...Yeah, it's up.
    Seen on Bash.org - #608521
----
<Dave> So my friend in school Andrew said he had linux
<Dave> After saying he got mIRC
<Dave> I told him you can't have both, mIRC is a windows Client
<Dave> Then he said he had Linux on his laptop
<Dave> I asked him what Distribution he had, he said wal-mart
    Seen on Bash.org - #608242
----
<Caskie> Ive gotta try and write a 17 page letter, but i dont kno what to write
<Fletch> Just write 'i am a fish' 400 times
<Caskie> no! :P, thats a waste of paper
<Fletch> Pfft,Im sick of people saying 'dont waste paper'. If trees wanted to
live, they'd all carry guns
    Seen on Bash.org - #607291
----
<k2xl> in 1998, i made a C++ program to calculate pi to a billion digits.
<k2xl> i coded it on my laptop (pentium 2 i think) and then ran the program.
<k2xl> the next day i got a new laptop but decided to keep the program running.
<k2xl> it's been over seven years now since i ran it. and this morning it
finished calculating.
<k2xl> the output:
<k2xl>      "THE VALUE OF PI TO THE BILLIONTH DIGIT IS = "
<k2xl> mindblowing eh?
<k2xl> i looked in the code of my program, and i found out that i forgot to
output the value :(.
    Seen on Bash.org - #605501
----
Geekie: This chick was yelling at me when I was eating chicken nuggets at
mcdonalds today.
Geekie: Like 'DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO TO THOSE ANIMAAAAAALS?!?'
Geekie: and this guy behind me goes 'Shut the fuck up, I'm trying to eat my
puppy-burger.
Ashleh: What did she do?
Geekie: she stfu. and cried.
    Seen on Bash.org - #604861
----
Optimizations always bust things, because all optimizations are, in the long
haul, a form of cheating, and cheaters eventually get caught.
    Larry Wall
----
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he
transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
----
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    Aristotle
----
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
    Aristotle
----
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
    Aristotle
----
We make war that we may live in peace.
    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b
----
Law is mind without reason.
    Aristotle
----
What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I'd type faster.
    Isaac Asimov
----
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
    Isaac Asimov
----
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
    Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
----
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
    Isaac Asimov
----
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve
them.
    Isaac Asimov
----
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams, from his book "Mostly Harmless"
----
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the
Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced
by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which
states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
----
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that
cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong
goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams, from his book "Mostly Harmless"
----
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account
be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
----
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it
is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but
that's just peanuts to space.
    Douglas Adams, from his book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
----
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
    Mel Brooks
----
Men willingly believe what they wish.
    Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
----
I really get a feeling of my increasing geekiness when I read these threads and
find them funny.
    henriquemaia, seen on http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201079
----
There is no such thing as an objective vi vs. emacs comparison because it's
hard to be objective when vi is obviously so much better
    evs-chris, seen on http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201079
----
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the
day before was wrong.
    Bill Vaughn
----
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them
tolerance.
    W. Somerset Maugham
----
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
    Leonard I. Sweet
----
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions
about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
    Sir Winston Churchill ,  Second World War (1948)
----
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they
have not been.
    Henry Kissinger
----
10. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
9. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
8. Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!
7. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'.
Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality
assurance people in its wake.
6. Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' -
and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
5. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment on his code!
3. Klingon software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those features are
too sophisticated for a Romulan pig like you to understand.
2. You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert unless you've read it in the original
Klingon.
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and
let them flee like the dogs they are!
    Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer, http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-205
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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
    Frank Dane
----
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually
receive my mail there.
    Scott Adams (1957 - )
----
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
    Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
----
cg_n_inefficient_code=06017_N_Inefficient code
% Your statement seems dubious to the compiler.
    Seen on errore.msg of FreePascal
----
EMacs Asterisk Syntax Highlighting - emacs gurus: yet another proof that vim is
the greatest is that there is a VIM syntax highlighting page but no emacs one.
Look at the comments below.
    Seen on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/vim+syntax+highlighting
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If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
    Henry Spencer
----
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
    Kernighan & Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
----
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's
even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
    Steve McConnell Code Complete
----
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first
woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
    Gerald Weinberg
----
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be
combined.
    Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
----
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an
indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying
to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying
to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step
onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development
techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to
lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve
your software, don't test more; develop better.
    Steve McConnell Code Complete
----
Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller,
you're part of the road.
    Stewart Brand
----
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
    Flannery O'Connor
----
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead
of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to to, let us
concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
    Donald Knuth
----
Be careful about using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I
haven't tested it.
    Donald Knuth
----
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
    Donald Knuth
----
"... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the
first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual.
... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds
of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought
of them or perceived why they were important.
    Donald Knuth"
----
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask
yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?'
Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
    Steve McConnell Code Complete
----
Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the
time you tell a woman what you did.
    Dilbet, 2006091116330
----
ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty year old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy
on him!
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
    Seen at, http://www.moronland.com/moronia/moron/919/
----
"Open source way of thinking is like "drinks on the house" with the ability to
stay on-line after"
    Adir Vered
----
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
    Janet Reno
----
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about
human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely
destructive. We've created life in our own image.
    Stephen Hawking
----
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
----
ining the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to
teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
    Bill Gates in 2005
----
If software were as unreliable as economic theory, there wouldn't be a plane
made of anything other than paper that could get off the ground.
    Jim Fawcette
----
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
    Sam Ewing
----
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a
Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode
once a year, killing everyone inside.
    "Robert X. Cringely", Computerworld
----
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts
you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them
together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
    1925 IBM Maintenence Manual
----
Technical people are better off not looking at patents. If somebody sues you,
you change the algorithm or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git.
    Linus Torvalds
----
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software
development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an
engineering discipline.
    Bill Clinton
----
At this time I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
    Janet Reno
----
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge,
could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid
machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer
programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.
They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
----
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
    B. F. Skinner
----
Kirk: Do you want to know something? Everybody's human.
Spock: I find that remark insulting.
    "Star Trek"
----
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to
use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to
use my telephone.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is
false. The hundredth time I am right.
    Albert Einstein
----
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied
to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that
automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
    Bill Gates
----
See, no matter how clever your automation systems might be, it all falls apart
if your human wetware isn't up to the job.
    Andrew Orlowski
----
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really
hate is lousy programmers.
    Larry Niven
----
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
    Peter Steiner
----
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
    Alan Bennett
----
Scotty: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and
two trainees could run her!
Kirk: Thank you, Mr. Scott, I'll try not to take that personally.
    Star Trek
----
I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true, then there
really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
----
People sould not fear their governments, governments should fear their people.
    Seen at /. - http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213586&cid=17363716
----
Before we can start, make sure you have the following:
1. Computer with installed Linux OS
2. Asterisk's installation packages
3. Some free time to spend ;o)
4. An IQ higher than the freezing point of water (in Celsius)
    Seen at http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/basic_installation_information_asterisk_from_source.html
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"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
    From Ender's Game
----
"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and
destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who
can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."
    From Ender's Game
----
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."
    Ender Wiggin to Valentine Wiggin, from Ender's Game
----
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what
they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
    From Ender's Game
----
[why he attacked a boy who was down] "Knocking him down won the first fight. I
wanted to win all the next ones too."
    From Ender's Game
----
All is going well, very well. I couldn't ask for anything better- So Why do I
hate my life?
    From Ender's Game
----
He had the respect of everyone, and he was treated with deference in his
evening practices. Commanders came to study what he did. Other soldiers
approached his table at mess and asked permission to sit down. Even the
teachers were respectful. He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
    From Ender's Game
----
"I need you to be clever Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we
haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because
they're absolutely stupid."
    From Ender's Game
----
Ender knew at this moment he might be able to walk out of the room and end the
battle. But the battle would only be fought again. Again and again until the
will to fight was finished. The only way to end things completely was to hurt
Bonzo enough that his fear was stronger than his hate.
    From Ender's Game
----
"I keep thinking of things I don't want to remember. My whole life keeps
playing out as if I were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most
terrible parts of my life."
    From Ender's Game
----
"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
    From Ender's Game
----
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he
and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then.
His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
    From Ender's Game
----
Thank you for this... For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to
hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.
    From Ender's Game
----
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put
it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by
answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
    Kenneth Tynan
----
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
    Elyas Machera, The Eye of the World
----
You read too much and understand too little.
    Moiraine Damodred, The Shadow Rising
----
Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly
enjoy the present.
----
There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either.
    Catch 22
----
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Catch 22
----
iam a phd remember.. i dont have skills!
----
I must admit, kernel developers do a really good job to piss off people,
we can't do better.
    Florian Klaempfl
----
How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it
    Linus Torvalds
----
I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find...
    Linus Torvalds
----
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of
different places, just write a Unix operating system.
    Linus Torvalds
----
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.
    Linus Torvalds, (NewYork Times interview)
----
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good
program.
    Linus Torvalds
----
Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does somebody know
what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke.
    Linus Torvalds (taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux)
----
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare atyou
blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*"
    Linus Torvalds
----
Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should
use Linux over BSD? No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard
on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say
"OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of
putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring
away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.
    Linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux)
----
The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF being
the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that it's something
people have to worry about right now - I don't see it happening in the near
future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does mean some work, and I haven't
gotten any complaints (some almost timid reminders about a patch I have
forgotten or ignored, but nothing negative so far). Don't take the above to
mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains: I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is
reading this over my shoulder commented that "thick-HEADED is closer to the
truth") enough to take some abuse. If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing
linux the day ast ridiculed me on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while
linux has been my baby so far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want
to make something better of it.
    Linus Torvalds
----
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
    Linus Torvalds
----
Narn: "What is truth and what is god?"
G'Kar: "Truth is a river. (Narns gasp)"
Narn: "And what is god?"
G'Kar: "God is the mouth of the river."
    Babylon 5
----
"I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it
again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.
    Steve Ballmer, http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/microsoft-ceo-im-going-to-fing-kill-google/2005/09/03/1125302772214.html
----
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
everything it touches.
    Steve Ballmer, Chicago Sun-Times
----
My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other
children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You
don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
    Steve Ballmer, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/8373041/index.htm
----
We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod
is "stolen".
    Steve Ballmer, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/07/ballmer_doesnt_get_it/
----
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
    Steve Ballmer, http://www.news.com/Ballmer-Trusting-Vista,-battling-Google/2100-1012_3-5902168.html?tag=nl.caro
----
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
    Steve Ballmer
----
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
No chance.
    Steve Ballmer
----
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
    Steve Ballmer
----
DRM is the future.
    Steve Ballmer
----
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
----
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
    Dean Martin
----
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
    Dylan Thomas
----
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't
know where the bathroom is.
    Billy Carter
----
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy
    Tom Waits
----
Somebody left the cork out of my lunch
    W.C. Fields
----
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
    Ernest Hemingway
----
There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after
drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit
like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you
realize that you were really alive.
    Charles Bukowski
----
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning,
that's as good as they're going to feel all day
    Frank Sinatra
----
I drink to make other people interesting
    George Jean Nathan
----
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move
about like a snake, and strike the other way
    Jean Anouilh, L'Alouette, 1952
----
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all
the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not
fighting.
    George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938
----
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its
subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden
to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the
motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been
hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man
whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything'you can't
conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
    Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940
----
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism
itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda
    Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
----
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
    Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, 1997
----
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to
disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it.
Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote
against their own interests.
    Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004
----
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for
illusion is deep
    Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back, 1976
----
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in
herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one
    Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,
1841
----
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in
the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of
sense
    Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900
----
It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early
years of life, whilst the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the
nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is
followed independently of reason
    Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871
----
There once was a virtualization coder,
Whose patches kept getting older,
Each time upstream would drop,
His documentation would slightly rot,
SO APPLY MY F*$KING PATCHES OR I'LL KEEP WRITING LIMERICKS.
    Rusty Russel
----
Just because code is clever doesn't mean it should go in. There are enough
things in the kernel which have to be complex that we should always be on the
lookout for things which can be made simpler.
    Rusty Russell, in a November 15th, 2007 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.
----
The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been
accomplished.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's vitally
important to get it right the last time.
    Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
----
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
    W. Edwards Deming
----
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
    Fred Brooks
----
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
    Dwight Eisenhower
----
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change
will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
    Nolan Ryan
----
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it
with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
----
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that
particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.
    Bill Cosby
----
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
    E. M. Forster
----
... Thous who are capable (and some that don't) use Pascal, the others, just
say dou' (Homer Simpson like) every other line of code.
    Ido Kanner, Explainin someone why he uses Pascal
----
It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for
people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved.
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm
clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair,
and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money
for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975
----
My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge,
and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I
fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
    American Beauty, 1999
----
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight
hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink
for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours'all you can do for eight
hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so
miserable and unhappy.
    William Faulkner, interview in Writers at Work, 1958
----
Industrial man'a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output,
coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder
why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop, 1944
----
I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire
generation pumping gas, waiting tables'slaves with white collars. Advertising
has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we
don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We
have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war . . .
our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to
believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.
But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed
off.
    Fight Club, 1999
----
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
    Oscar Wilde
----
For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who
worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and
worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no
balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they
got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.
    Goodfellas, 1990
----
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into
the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are
employed, as it says in the old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust
will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they
will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
----
We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this
way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer
screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different
bosses drone on about about mission statements.
    Office Space, 1999
----
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of
sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.
    Johnny Carson, host, Academy Award ceremony, 1979
----
Good evening, Hollywood phonies.
    Chevy Chase, salutation, hosting the Academy Award ceremony, 1988
----
I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight
black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't
recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why
should I watch it?
    Chris Rock, 77th Academy Awards host, quoted in Entertainment Weekly, 2005
----
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad
taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
    Vincent Canby, describing the Academy Award ceremony, 1983
----
What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything.
    Sally Field, 1980
----
I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what
they're doing. When you see who wins those things'or who doesn't win them'you
can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.
    Woody Allen, 1978
----
Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
    Humphrey Bogart, 1943
----
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
    Dustin Hoffman, 1975
----
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display
with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
    George C. Scott, declining the Oscar for Best Actor, 1971
----
Hello, my name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache and president of the
National Native American Affirmative Action Committee. I'm representing Marlon
Brando tonight and he's asked me to tell you in a very long speech which I
cannot share with you presently because of time that he very regretfully cannot
accept their very generous award and the reasons for this being the treatment
of American Indians by the film industry.
    Sacheen Littlefeather (Maria Cruz), declining Brando's Best Actor Award for The Godfather, 1973 Academy Awards
----
Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no
sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of
the same thing.'
    The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck
----
Ravished! How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by
dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] D. H. Lawrence
----
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his.
Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by
hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names.
    Slaughterhouse-Five [1969] Kurt Vonnegut
----
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
    To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee
----
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned
on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without
any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt
Time, that meant that everything burnt!
    Fahrenheit 451 [1953] Ray Bradbury
----
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or
anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
    The Catcher in the Rye [1951] J.D. Salinger
----
"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it
has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters,
toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of
resuscitating the body and the soul.
    Tropic of Cancer [1934] Henry Miller
----
The Planet drifts to random insect doom...
    Naked Lunch [1959] William S. Burroughs
----
History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    Ulysses [1922] James Joyce
----
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this
way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence
to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion,
which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on
record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as
often as was necessary.
    1984 [1949] George Orwell
----
Christmas is awesome. First of all you get to spend time with people you love.
Secondly, you can get drunk and no one can say anything. Third, you give
presents. What's better than giving presents? And fourth, getting presents. So
four things. Not bad for one day. It's really the greatest day of all time.
    From The Office
----
I hate Christmas. The mall is full of nothing but women and children. All you
hear is 'I want this,' 'Get me this,' 'I have to have this' . . . and then
there's the children. And they're all by my store 'cause they stuck the mall
Santa right outside ringing his stupid bell. As if you need a bell to notice a
300-pound alcoholic in a red suit. 'Ho, ho, ho,' all day long. So, nice as can
be, I go outside, ask him to shut the hell up. He takes a swing at me. So I lay
a hook into his fat belly and he goes down. Beard comes off, all the kids start
crying and I'm the bad guy.
    Al Bundy in Married . . . With Children
----
You see Santa Claus tonight you better run boy, you better run for ya life! . .
. You scared, ain't you? You should be! Christmas Eve is the scariest damn
night of the year!
    Silent Night, Deadly Night
----
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind
    John F. Kennedy
----
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
----
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a
thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
    Confucius ,  The Confucian Analects
----
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
    Thomas Jefferson ,  Notes on the State of Virginia
----
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own
industry or by the stupidity of others.
    Jean de LaBruyere
----
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he
had got.
    Josh Billings
----
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
    M. Shawn Cole
----
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain,
there would be no rainbow.
    Jerry Chin
----
The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and
flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all
the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.
    Brian Behlendorf, Apache Group
----
Windows is not an operating system, it is a virtual emulation for testing
hardware and software reaction for overloading a computer
    Ido Kanner, A conversation regarding the usage of Windows virtualization
----
> I am looking for a Python trainer so we can start offering
> Python training to our customers.

Must... Resist... Oh what the heck.

(read with a heavy southern India accent)

Hello, my name is Ashish Khare, I've been a python trainer for
fourteen years under the great Ranjan of Pushkar, I would love to
train any python that you have, I also do cobra and rattle snakes. I
am highly experienced and my pythons have only bitten 3 people so far,
one of them tried to actually grab it by the teeth, imagine that. No
fatalities so far. I have my own basket and flute and willing to
relocate.

Please call Ashish +91 (98) 1137-7803 for more details.

    Arik Baratz in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.israel/427
----
my name is Inigo Montoya, you (have tried) to kill my compiler, prepare to die
----
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
    Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
----
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.
Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.
Trillian: Yeah, we know.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids
with GPP...
Arthur: Um... what's GPP?
Marvin: Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can
tell, can't you...?
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: [as they are gazing at the wonder of Magrathea] Incredible... it's even
worse than I thought it would be.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
[Arthur and Ford have each been unexpectedly hit in the face by some unknown
flyswatter-like thing]
Zaphod: [after finally also being hit in the face] Zarquon! What was that?
Geez...
Marvin: [depressed] I'd make a suggestion, but you wouldn't listen.
[even more depressed]
Marvin: No one ever does.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: [as Vogons fire at the group] Don't see what the big deal is... Vogons
are some of the worst shots in the galaxy...
Marvin: [one hits Marvin, leaving a smoking hole in his head. he turns] Now
I've got a headache!
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: Freeze? I'm a robot. I'm not a refrigerator.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: I've been talking to the main computer.
Arthur: And?
Marvin: It hates me.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
[last lines]
Marvin: Not that anyone cares what I think, but the restaurant is at the
*other* end of the Universe.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
Marvin: I've calculated your chance of survival, but I don't think you'll like
it.
    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
----
> Subject: Microsoft Office Communications Server
>
> Has anyone done any integration with this?
>
> All I know so far is that it appears to use some non standard form of
> SIP.
>
> Any pointers?
>
<sarcasm>
What!? Microsoft implementing something not compliant with official
standards. Your kidding?
</sarcasm>
    David Cook, Asterisk users malling list
----
>> Sorry, we dont have telepathy abilities...
>>
>
> Can you add telepathy abilities to the next Lazarus version?
>
> That would be great!
>
This is for Mattias - he is our innovation manager.
    Paul Ishenin, Lazarus malling list
----
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
    Philip K. Dick, Valis, US science fiction author (1928 - 1982)
----
<durn> are u _the_ r0b0c0d?
<r0b0c0d> yes bish
<durn> omfg everyone is talking about u, u ddos attacking dalnet??
<r0b0c0d> is the pope fuckin old?
    Seen at Bash.org  #44695
----
<jcarle> We don't have SATs in canada.
<jcarle> All our words stop at 6 letters.
    Seen at Bash.org, #71437
----
<abcbooze> a patriot missle shot down a british aircraft
<i8> Damn British pilots flying into our missiles...
    Seem at Bash.org, #82222
----
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux f�r IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
    Seen at Bash.org, #106579
----
<@LZ|5133p> gonna have to rebuild my fish tank tomorrow
<@LZ|5133p> getting a new filter
<@LZ|5133p> and fish
<+Toba> pkg_delete fish-tank-1.0.23b
<+Toba> cd /usr/ports/fish/fish-tank-1.2.43c
<+Toba> make all install clean -WITH_FILTER -WITH_FISH
    Seen at Bash.org, #477843
----
<Cyan> Some dude tried to break in last night at like 2am, but I was on the
comp and it's like right beside the window so I heard the faggot.
<Cyan> Anyways, I grabbed the folding chair and as soon as he was like halfway
through I beat the fucking shit out of him.
<Cyan> So he's laying here unconscious and I call the cops. Once they get here,
they search him and look at what he fucking had:
<Cyan> 8 track tape (unlabeled), Flashlight (no batteries), Half eaten box of
Fig Newtons, Measuring tape, Instructions to "Monopoly."
<dan> Dude, you fucking killed McGuyver!
    Seen at Bash.org, #823214
----
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later!
    Brooks Law
----
The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner
    Jim Highsmith
----
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time
    Fred Brooks
----
How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time.
    Fred Brooks
----
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are
assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the
sequential nature of debugging
    Fred Brooks
----
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow
    Fred Brooks
----
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch
----
Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but
rather when there is nothing more to take away
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
----
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write
code that humans can understand.
    Martin Fowler
----
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show
their absence!
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is
wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a
significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be
built.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt
almost any feature that users want.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers think it is good for
programmers and programmers hate it!.
    Gerald Weinberg
----
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask
yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?'
Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
    Steve McConnell
----
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out
code. You should be able to read it.
    Steve McConnell
----
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is
to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
    Steve McConnell
----
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have
programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
    Ralph Johnson
----
If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your
organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then
leave.
    Edward Yourdon, Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer
----
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
    Larry Wall
----
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend
such time in design that there are none.
    Alan M. Turing
----
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price
which the very rich may find hard to pay.
    Charles Antony Richard Hoare (C.A.R. Hoare)
----
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so
simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make
it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is
far more difficult.
    Charles Antony Richard Hoare (C.A.R. Hoare)
----
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which
end is up.
    Charles Antony Richard Hoare (C.A.R. Hoare)
----
Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out.
    Charles Antony Richard Hoare (C.A.R. Hoare)
----
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
    Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
----
Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
----
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least
until we've finished building it
----
Better train people and risk they leave - than do nothing and risk they stay
----
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament
    Kent Beck
----
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
    Frederick P. Brooks
----
When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on
projects that you want to succeed.
    Martin Fowler, in "UML Distilled"
----
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
    The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham
----
Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.
    Austin Freeman
----
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous,
but continues to succeed.
    Dennis Ritchie
----
A good way to stay flexible is to write less code
----
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to
the working state.
    John Ousterhout
----
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without
necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind
stupidity.
    W.A. Wulf
----
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is
supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.
    Bertrand Meyer
----
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use
a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will
not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
    Humphrey, W.S., "The Personal Software Process"
----
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,
if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
    Brian W. Kernighan
----
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
    Albert Einstein
----
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which
is baffling --- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than
admiration.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower,
you are not ready to code it.
    Richard Pattis
----
You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams
behave like dysfunctional families.
    Jim McCarthy
----
The perfect project plan is possible if one first documents a list of all the
unknowns.
    Bill Langley
----
If something is worth doing once, it's worth building a tool to do it
----
Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live
----
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the
reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions
are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your
groceries at the same time."
    Steve McConnell, Code Complete
----
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
    Richard Pattis
----
Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting
them in one place.
    Gordon Bell
----
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
    Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
----
Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.
    Gerald M. Weinberg, "Understanding the Professional Programmer"
----
No matter what the problem is, it's always a people problem.
    Gerald M. Weinberg
----
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design
and build durable, usable, dependable software.
    Larry Constantine
----
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in
quotations.
    Benjamin Disraeli
----
We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that
enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were
made because we rushed through the design process.
    Glenford Myers
----
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality
    Niklaus Wirth
----
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and
perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products
that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given
resources.
    Niklaus Wirth
----
Software expands to fill the available memory.
    Parkinson
----
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
    Reiser
----
My goal is to make the computer invisible.
    Stu Galley, from Infocom's Implementer's Creed
----
Always honor the system color settings, that is, the colors that the user chose
in the control panel. Users have deliberately chosen those colors to give their
computer the color scheme they like. Also, many of your vision-impaired users
have deliberately set up schemes that they can see more clearly. (For that
matter, always honor they system fonts so that your text is readable by people
who prefer larger fonts.)
    Joel Spolsky
----
Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like
trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often.
    Steve McConnell, Code Complete
----
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???
    Richard A. O'Keefe
----
C++: Hard to learn and built to stay that way
----
C++ is like teenage sex:
       * It's on everyone's mind all the time.
       * Everyone talks about it all the time.
       * Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
       * Almost no one is really doing it.
       * The few who are doing it are:
            * doing it poorly.
            * sure it will be better next time.
            * not practicing it safely.
       * Everyone's bragging about their successes all the time, although very few have actually had any.
----
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards
removed
    Bob Gray
----
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place
to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
    R. William Beckwith
----
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly
typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped
language
    Ron Sercely
----
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
    Stefan Van Baelen
----
C++ has it's place in the history of programming languages.
Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire ?
    Robert Firth
----
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
    Gavin Russell Baker
----
C++ would make a decent teaching language if we could teach the ++ part without
the C part.
    Michael B. Feldman
----
The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple
problems look like large, complex ones
----
In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off
your whole leg.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
Top 5 reasons to buy a crappy C++ book:
 5 -- You won't read it anyway
 4 -- It comes out of your company's wallet, not yours
 3 -- It's the only language left that doesn't try to be "write once, run on
any toaster oven"
 2 -- You still can't figure out how pointers work
 1 -- It's still less crappy than the writing on Slashdot
    Amsterdam Vallon, http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52893&cid=5241935
----
When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
    Steve Haflich in alt.lang.design, December 1994
----
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero,
they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs
    Robert Firth
----
I have stopped reading Stephen King novels. Now I just read C code instead.
    Richard O'Keefe
----
C++ is an atrocity, the bletcherous scab of the computing world, responsible
for more buffer overflows, more security breaches, more blue screens of death,
more mysterious failures than any other computer language in the history of the
planet Earth.
    Eric Lee Green
----
Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste
better than tree bark.
    Thant Tessman
----
If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is
consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.
    Andrew Plotkin
----
Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen
sticks.
    Thant Tessman
----
If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract
virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you
needed one?
    Tom Cargill
----
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet
downward and covered with dirt.
    Blair P. Houghton
----
A system composed of 100,000 lines of C++ is not be sneezed at, but we don't
have that much trouble developing 100,000 lines of COBOL today. The real test
of OOP will come when systems of 1 to 10 million lines of code are developed.
    Ed Yourdon
----
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
    Jamie Zawinski
----
Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in
mind.
    Alan Kay
----
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the
implementation.
    Bertrand Meyer
----
C++ will do for C what Algol-68 did for Algol.
    David L Jones
----
C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according
to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of
assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly
language."
    MIT Jargon Dictionary
----
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good.
    Bertrand Meyer
----
PL/I and Ada started out with all the bloat, were very daunting languages, and
got bad reputations (deservedly). C++ has shown that if you slowly bloat up a
language over a period of years, people don't seem to mind as much.
    James Hague
----
Java is, in many ways, C++--.
    Michael Feldman
----
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It's really
just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
    Bill Joy
----
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
    Dennis Ritchie
----
Eiffel borrows quite heavily from some earlier programming languages and I am
sure that if we had found a good programming construct in C we would have used
it as well.
    Bertrand Meyer
----
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people
carrying razors.
    Waldi Ravens
----
All C programs do the same thing: look at a character and do nothing with it.
    Peter Weinberger
----
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they
should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language
is too baroque for my taste.
    Donald E Knuth
----
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
    Jerry Olson
----
Other advanced languages, such as assembler and C, were not terribly complex in
themselves, but the environments in which applications were developed were
downright weird, with mines scattered about everywhere, ready to blow the
inattentive programmer out of the water.
    Bruce Tognazzini
----
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write
in Morse code.
    J P Candusso
----
To me C++ seems to be a language that has sacrificed orthogonality and elegance
for random expediency.
    Meilir Page-Jones
----
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
    Philip Greenspun
----
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
    Scott McKay
----
Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.
    Richard P Gabriel
----
It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing
the trival details of a program -- such as where its bugs are.
    David Keppel
----
I view the landslide of C use in education as something of a calamity.
    Nicklaus Wirth
----
C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata and expecting some sort of
improvement.
    Drew Olbrich
----
Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to
another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backwards
from which we may never recover.
    Tony Hoare
----
C++: Simula in wolf's clothing.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
----
The belief is still widespread in the commputing community that C and its
derivatives are programming languages -- languages intended for people to write
programs in. This is a regrettable misunderstanding.
    Bertrand Meyer
----
From a practical viewpoint, it's easy to see that C will always be with us,
taking a place beside Fortran and Cobol as the right tool for certain jobs.
    Larry O'Brien
----
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your
project and do so without apologies.
    Alistair Cockburn
----
--> spx2 has joined #soc-help
<spx2> I want to FIGHT FOR PERL IN GSOC !
<spx2> I feel the power of metal in my veins
<spx2> perl is flowing in my blood !
<spx2> What perl Armies can I join this YEAR ?
<ambs> spx2: a lot :)
<spx2> ambs: Hail BRETHREN !
<spx2> where are the armies ???
<spx2> I want to ENGAGE and start preparing my weapons !
<spx2> ambs: what projects are this year ?
<ambs> spx2: ideas at
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
<spx2> I will fight this year in the PERL battle !
<rindolf> spx2: Python is for the WEAK and TIMID!
<spx2> rindolf: TOTALLY !
* spx2 examines the war grounds
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
<edeca> Hrm. More infernal questions, mainly because I am trying to
make my perl prettier and contain less nasty if's. I have
$foo and $bar which are obtained from split(/ /, 'kitten
loving'). But I don't want undef if the split fails, I'd
rather '' for $bar or both. What's the nicest way to do
that?
<Khisanth> ($foo, $bar) = map { $_ // "" } split / /, $str; # 5.10
version :)
<edeca> Noo 5.10! :)
<Khisanth> ($foo, $bar) = map { defined $_ ? $_ : "" } split / /,
$str; # probably some other shorter ways too
<rindolf> edeca: [bad idea] you can also try using the
conditional->inheritance refactoring.
<rindolf> :-)
* Khisanth pours boiling coffee on rindolf
* <rindolf> Khisanth: I hate coffee, but I guess I deserved it.
* <rindolf> That was a joke, of course.
* <Khisanth> you weren't really supposed to like having boiling anything
* poured on you but I guess you are into the kinkier stuff
*
* -- Freenode's #perl
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
<rbastic> Juerd: eh in today's world of heavy JS on the clientside, i
think it makes a little more sense to use the same lang.
everywhere
<Juerd> rbastic: JS on the client side is because often it's the
only option the universe provides.
<rbastic> Juerd: from a business perspective, you reduce the
complexity and potential difficulties in finding new hires
with the same skillset
<rindolf> rbastic: have you heard of RJS?
<Juerd> rbastic: On the server side, however, you have great
freedom.
<rbastic> rindolf: no, what's that?
<Caelum> larry wants perl6 to run on javascript :)
<rindolf> rbastic: "One Language; and One Sayings".
<Juerd> rbastic: Exactly. I would never hire a server side
programmer who knows *only* Javascript, and is too stupid to
learn whatever we're using on the server side.
<rindolf> rbastic: my translation to a sentence from the Tower of
Babel myth.
<rbastic> Juerd: i'll agree with that also. any real programmer knows
or has at least coded in half a dozen languages before
<Juerd> From a business perspective, you should avoid crap coders at
all cost.
<Juerd> Knows *or* has coded... Hmmm...!
<rindolf> rbastic: though according to what most scholars believe it
was not about using one language but rather thinking the
same.
<Juerd> I hope they haven't coded in half a dozen languages without
knowing them.
<Juerd> That'd be scary.
<zshzn> Reality is scary, Juerd
<talexb> Hmm, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, assembler, C, more assembler, C,
Pascal ... Perl!
-- The Grand Unified Programming Language
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
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<rindolf> rbastic: now I'm working with C++.
<rindolf> rbastic: I found out that my project compiles really
quickly.
<rindolf> rbastic: under 5 or 10 minutes on a P4-2.4GHz with 1 GB of
RAM.
<rindolf> rbastic: maybe KDE is making g++ look bad.
<rbastic> rindolf: yeah, i'm not a big KDE fan
<rindolf> rbastic: actually I'm using KDE-3.5.8 here.
<rindolf> rbastic: I was talking about the compilation speed of KDE
apps and KDE itself.
<rindolf> rbastic: possibly because each file has half-a-gazillion
headers.
<rindolf> My C++ code is a server one, so we don't have too many deps.
<rbastic> yeah, isn't there a way to cache header files? ie. in their
"compiled" form?
<rbastic> or is that something I'm remembering from some other
programming language that purported to build on top of C?
<rindolf> rbastic: MSVC has that.
<rbastic> ahh, nods
<rindolf> rbastic: no, Visual C++ has precompiled headers.
<rindolf> rbastic: I remember that I kept deleting them.
<rbastic> yeah, couldn't remember
<rbastic> lol
<rindolf> Pascal compiles very quickly.
<rindolf> That's one of the things I enjoyed in Delphi.
<rbastic> ugh, the app i'm been maintaining in Java was originally a
fat client/server desktop app, written in Delphi
<rindolf> rbastic: ah.
<rbastic> i remember booting up the old app for the first time, and
being amazed at how slow it was
<rbastic> eventually, i had to duplicate a feature in the Java code
and i wasn't sure how it was implemented before
<rindolf> rbastic: you mean the Java app is faster? :S
<rbastic> so being as i had no Delphi experience, and the newer Delphi
environments made NO sense to me at all, i just opened up
the SQL Server query analyzer
<rbastic> rindolf: yes, but only b/c the Delphi programmer was an
idiot, issuing queries over and over again needlessly
<rbastic> rindolf: if you could've seen the MSSQL Performance Analyzer
or whatever, it was basically just.. Query1, Query2, Query3,
Query1, Query2, Query3, repeat.
<rbastic> it was probably the worst ive ever seen in my life.. belongs
on www.thedailywtf.com

-- Can I haz a fast compiler on Freenode's #perl
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
<rindolf> scrottie: hi.
<scrottie> hi rindolf!
<rindolf> scrottie: are you the scrottie from use.perl.org?
<scrottie> yeah.
<rindolf> scrottie: ah, nice to meet you.
<rindolf> Well, chat with you on IRC at least.
* scrottie cowers from the swinging fist probably coming his
* way
* <rindolf> scrottie: I'm "Shlomi%20Fish"
* <scrottie> oh, heh, thanks
* <rindolf> It's a curse.
* <scrottie> hmm. i vaguely remember interesting stuff from you but
* can't honestly place what.
* <scrottie> I know I've seen you around here before too.
* <rindolf> Yeah, my use.perl.org blog is mostly technical and
* perl-related.
* <scrottie> I post on use.perl.org entirely too much.
* <rindolf> So it may be a bit boring.
* <rindolf> Sometimes it's a bit philosophical.
* <rindolf> scrottie: yes.
* <scrottie> heh. and mine is offensively off-topic.
* <rindolf> scrottie: I have other blogs.
* <scrottie> I've posted to livejournal twice!
*
* -- I think too much - therefore I blog too much on Freenode's #perl
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
<rindolf> Can we add styles like <b>, <i>, etc.?
<rindolf> Or colours?
<rindolf> Or blink?
<rindolf> Or images?
<rindolf> Or flash applets?
<scrottie> <banner>!
<alanhaggai> rindolf: No I think. Google's Web Application does not
allow them. It is just a <textarea>.

-- How intrusive do you want your text to be?
-- Freenode's #perl
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
<rindolf> A lot of ise's [in Aspell's British Spelling checker] are false
positivies.
<rindolf> positives even.
<rindolf> People who say $minor_spelling_correction even, are lam.
<rindolf> lame even.
<rindolf> I never get tired of these self-referential jokes.

-- Freenode's #perl
    Seen on hackers il, 12/04/2008
----
When finlly you understand life, you finish your own

quando compreenderes a vida, acabas com a tua
    Ido Kanner
----
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the
development time... The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other
90 percent of the development time.
    Tom Cargill
----
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of
course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
    Larry Wall
----
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft
building progress by weight.
    Bill Gates
----
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is.
    Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
----
The hardest part of design... is keeping features out.
    Donald Norman
----
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the
process of putting them in.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
----
The software isn't finished until the last user is dead.
----
Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to
work with the science.
----
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors
----
Bad code isn't bad, its just misunderstood.
----
It is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured.
----
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
----
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in
simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
----
Benchmarks don't lie, but liars do benchmarks
----
Your code does not start at the compiler nor does it stop at the JVM
----
One lesson that most developers don't learn is to debug outside the debugger.
As an engineer there are times when you need to troubleshot, problem solve, and
debug not just your software from the comforts of your favorite IDE but the
whole software stack, network, hardware, user's environment, and even the user
himself.
----
You can unit test and statically analysis software, but you can't probe your
users.
----
Every problem, issue, and bug experienced by the end user directly and
indirectly with your software eventually needs to be implicitly and explicitly
dealt with by your software development team.
----
I wish development teams spend more time streamlining their process rather than
prematurely optimizing their code
----
It is OK to have software with bugs, bugs can be fixed. It is not OK to have
software with excuses!
----
Learn, plan, design, code, integrate, build, release, rinse, and repeat.
----
Management has a way of over emphasizing the blatantly obvious
----
I've discovered that Windows security is an oxymoron!
----
I know that techies, myself included, are always bragging about how their code
is poetry but I have never meet a poet laureate in a development team.
----
Remixing and mashing up Google Maps and Flickr is like the 'Hello, World' first
program of Web 2.0 mashups.
----
Open Source code equals community.
----
As a rule of thumb, I never cache, pool, or use as singleton mutable objects
----
Bugs by nature are out of the box, as a developer, you need to expand the box.
----
WWGD: What would Google do?
----
At some companies, the term Spec stands for Speculation
----
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which
inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing,
debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your
own, usually in a tight deadline.
----
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young,
new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and
employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better
programmer for it.
----
You might as well hire your customers and pay them 50K/year because they are
your new QA.
----
There is a saying, those who can, do; those who can't, teach. It can be said
that in software engineering, those who can, code, those who can't, manage.
----
The greatest thing about Ruby on Rails is neither Ruby nor Rails, the best
aspect of Rails is that it questioned the 'best practices' (and worst
nightmares) of the current state of web development with its philosophy of
Convention over Configuration and Don't Repeat Yourself principle.
----
There is more than one way to do it, but do it how ever more than one developer
can understand it.
----
Design a software solution for the end user, not for a fellow developer, or
worse yet your database.
----
If the end user can't use your software, that's a bug.
----
You may consider your code as art but no one is going to hang your code in the
Louvre
----
Use the quicksort approach to problem solving.
----
Having code working on the developer's machine is not a valid solution,
software needs to work at the client's site too!
----
The anti-FUD: Fighting FUD with more FUD
----
Unfortunately, there is no performance enhancement supplement you can take to
make you a better software engineer.
----
Even the best process and best technology fail, if the people fail. People
often fail, when management fails to provide the right incentive, motivation,
and passion-oriented environment that people like to be a part of.
----
Failure is a form of experience.
----
Everyone has their own way of learning and should be granted the opportunity to
digest information as they know how to learn best, whether it is through
documentation, screen shots, class diagrams, use cases, prototyping,
refactoring, and even rewriting.
----
It is commonly said that you don't know what you have until you lose it. With
software you usually don't know what the user will want until you ship.
----
As a developer, it is not like we get royalties on our work, so what do I care
that 5% of my software is pirated, those that do pay for it make up the
perceived loss.
----
Software companies should listen to their customers, even those that use their
software a few times, instead of their lawyers, that most likely never have
used their software.
----
Every piece of code has bugs, but not every bug needs to be in the code.
----
Testing is not a one time, one shot deal. Testing is like marriage, you have to
work at it every day for it to be successful.
----
I don't hire software engineers to code. The primary function of an software
engineer is to learn and analysis and decode a problem mentally so that then
can later code their language of choice.
----
Software engineering is nothing like civil engineering. Software engineers
listen too much to their end users. If civil engineers listen to their users as
much we would software developers do most buildings would end up like the
Winchester Mystery House with a freeway offramp coming right up to their
driveway.
----
This feature might have been due yesterday, but telling me a day after it is
due is not a schedule!
----
A business laptop given to a knowledge worker should be treated such as a
marine treats his issued assault weapon, with the utmost respect and intimate
knowledge of its inner workings. A business laptop is usually loaded with
sensitive and proprietary information, and it is just pathetic when someone
can't change the display on their own machine to use a projector.
----
If you don't understand Open Source licensing, don't start an Open Source
project. Keep your code!
----
The real value of code does not lie in the source code, the value lies in the
knowledge and expertize of the community.
----
For every one line of code in jQuery, there is at least one plugin written by a
third party.
----
There cannot be a killer app without a killer community.
----
The easier it is to reproduce a bug, the easier it is to fix.
----
You can't have five top priorities at once.
----
As a software engineer, it is better to think of yourself as ninja programmer
rather than a mercenary coder.
----
Its not a team meeting if only one person talks, that's more like a
presentation.
----
The anatomy of a Google application is sheer simplicity, great user interface
and experience, accessible data API, and instant scalability.
----
A properly written application might scale to millions of users, a top
developer at most can scale to a few tasks a day.
----
A programming language shouldn't change it's accent in every major point
release. This is also true about libraries, frameworks, and APIs.
----
Adhering to a process is like a freeway, when everyone is going at sustainable
developer velocity, the process is flowing. But it only takes one developer to
stall in the middle of the process to back up and side rail the whole team, as
one stalled car in the freeway backs up everybody.
----
In the end, all software end up the same, just a bunch of boxes wired together.
----
Software development teams are like Tolstoy's Family, there is a one way to
produce happy software, but unlimited number of ways to be down trodden
frustrated and dysfunctional software.
----
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring a horror
flick by the number of victims, for either case it's usually a gorefest.
----
As software developers, half the stuff we do is hacks for the other half.
----
Don't let the spec define and technology limit user experience.
----
Software engineering wants to be a creative, like writing, and disciplined,
like engineering, but it is often neither.
----
Remember that process is there to help people, not people to push along the
process.
----
I've heard of greenfield app, now brownfield app. A brownfield that
contaminated by poor practices but has the potential to be revived. What is
next? Cloverfield?
----
The only thing I hate most other writing unit tests, is refactoring, updating,
and maintaining code that do not have unit tests.
----
In most applications you'll ever develop, optimization and scalability are just
10% of the job. Focus on the 90%, which is getting the thing to work correctly.
----
Learning a new platform requires you learn a whole set of known issues and
limitations, and to discover new ones in the process.
----
Anyone eager to deploy a web application on a new framework is a masochist.
----
Backward compatibility is not just about code but also applies to usability.
Backward compatible is about implies to user expectations.
----
Rails is not just opinionated software, it is fascist software.
----
The Java version of a Hello World example Web Services using Axis 2 is just
about ten lines of code, 55 jars, and 20MB war file. Fail.
----
Everyone has ideas, ideas are a cheap commodity. Visualizing an idea for five
minutes is not the same thing as working years to actualize it.
----
Not every cloud computing initiative has a silver lining.
----
Big O notation is used to describe computational complexity, I use Big H
notation to describe the level of a hack. H(n!) describes a MacGyver level
hack. Similarly there is a Big F notation for level of FAIL.
----
In programming there is force of nature or grace of God, just hacks of
probability and redundancy.
----
Saying that it will be fixed in the a future release does not fix the problem.
----
When hiring, I'll take someone that wants to do it over someone that has done
it once and is willing to do it again until something better comes along. That
is the difference between passion and bandwagon, career man and salary man,
patriot and mercenary, love and prostitution.
----
If all things are equal and fully qualify, hire those that want to be there,
contract those that just need to be somewhere.
----
It doesn't matter how smart you are, or how smart I think I am. Regression
testing will prove us wrong.
----
I have heard that some teams follow the Software Development Life Cycle. But I
have seen teams follow the Software Development Death March.
----
Recruit. Retain. Retrain.
----
Some entrepreneurs idea of a business model is how much they can charge their
customers not what they can do for them.
----
Some entrepreneurs are looking for a sexy business model, I'll stick to my hard
working homely business model.
----
Service provider: Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick two. Employee: passionate,
knowledgeable, productive. Pick one.
----
When people are too busy to learn, they are not being productive.
----
Which is best, an extraordinary idea executed ordinary and ordinary idea
executed extraordinary?
----
Learn to manage your manager.
----
You could only be excellent, you can't be half excellent
----
You can only stand in front of a client only if you know what you say you know.
----
You can't charge for testing, but it saves you time and money, it is an
investment in quality and sanity.
----
The problem with frameworks is that you most often have a very narrow frame to
work with.
----
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
    George Burns
----
If you are spending more time writing code than thinking about what code you
should write - you are doing something wrong. Very wrong. Or it's something
trivial enough to not be of much importance. Or it's Java.
    Developing at the speed of thought
----
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
    Henry Spencer
----
Evolution always seems to win out over revolution when it comes to technology.
    Rick Hightower
----
C++ is popular because it is like C. Java is popular because it is like C++ and
C. C# is popular because it is like Java. See a pattern
    Rick Hightower
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Process makes us strong. ... Process allows us to draw pretty charts and graphs
on endless presentations.
    Crystal Methodology
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I really think types are the fundamental currency of Java, not strings.
    Crazy Bob Lee
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Don't be a corporate programmer. They demand all of your creativity and trust
none of your judgment.
    Zed Shaw
----
I really think a major problem in our industry is that programmers turn their
brains off when someone with a Ph.D. or who's written a book makes a statement.
    Zed Shaw
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Don't just fucking blog, but write some software and give it away. While the
average person can only read a human language, the people you really need to
hit with your message as a programmer are other coders.
    Zed Shaw
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The programmer who programs least, programs best.
    Justin Etheredge
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Well, it has been said over and over again that the tremendous cost of
programming is caused by the fact that it is done by cheap labor, which makes
it very expensive, and secondly that people rush into coding.
    Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra
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The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what
everyone else is doing.
    Martin Fowler
----
You should be 95% certain that a candidate would be a great hire before they
ever set foot in an interview room.
    Jeff Atwood
----
What software developers do best is learn.
    Jeff Atwood
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Saying you understand SQL is the best way of getting me to ask you to design a
table to describe a hierarchical structure or give a talk on concurrency.
    Clinton Pierce
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For instance, ideas at Google do not burst forth from the heads of geniuses and
then find their way unimpeded to huge audiences of receptive users. Rather
ideas emerge, are torn to shreds, reformulated, torn to shreds, prototyped,
torn to shreds, launched to internal users, torn to shreds, rebuilt and
relaunched, torn to shreds, refined some more, torn to shreds, put back
together one last time, torn to shreds by SREs, tweaked again in a
seemingly-endless frenzy of last minute work, and launched...whereupon they are
torn to shreds by bloggers, journalists, and competitors. The magic of Google
is that tearing to shreds...
    Kevin Scott
----
why is it that the software development industry, which has all these awesome
ways of sharing what has previously been done, constantly finds itself
reinventing the wheel?
    Robert Fischer
----
Building Facebook Applications is not a business plan, unless you are a web
developer who does freelance Facebook application development. It is the
McDonalds equivalent of a business plan. Quick, cheap, greasy and ultimately
unfulfilling.
    Jevon MacDonald
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Software is error-ridden in part because of its growing complexity. The size of
software products is no longer measured in thousands of lines of code, but in
millions. Software developers already spend approximately 80 percent of
development costs on identifying and correcting defects, and yet few products
of any type other than software are shipped with such high levels of errors.
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
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While machines have changed enormously, the business of software development
has been rather static. We still spend most of our time working n requirements
and specification, the low-tech part of our work.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
Productivity within the software industry has improved by three to five percent
a year, only marginally better than the steel or automobile industry.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. Count on the
best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
People who had ten years of experience did not outperform those with two years
of experience.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
There was a very weak relationship between salary and performance.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
The business we're in is more sociological then technological, more dependent
on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to
communicate with machines.
    Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
----
Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for
relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine.
    Seth Godin
----
The flip side of code ownership is code responsibility.
    Jeff Atwood
----
The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault
    Jeff Atwood
----
Stop being a software factory, write a software factory.
    Richard Campbell
----
Programming books sold by weight, not by volume.
    Jeff Atwood
----
People who talk big about scalability don't need to worry about it
    Ted Dziuba
----
Dude, your app isn't having scalability problems because of the architecture.
It's having scalability problems because you coded a ton of N^2 loops into it
and you're too self-important to get peer reviews on your commits.
    Ted Dziuba
----
If you haven't discussed capacity planning, you can't discuss scalability
    Ted Dziuba
----
Unless you know what you need to scale to, you can't even begin to talk about
scalability.
    Ted Dziuba
----
Choosing technology don't mean shit if you don't know how to use it
    Ted Dziuba
----
Buying new software should require product research, multiple demos, on-site
testing, reference checking, and planning
    Gene Marks
----
The bottleneck in writing code isn't in the writing of the code, it's in
understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done.
    Shane Legg
----
I use a variety of languages, tools, and OSes, and my choice of which to use
are all geared around a single end goal: not to promote my own social or
political agenda, but to make my customer happy.
    Ted Neward
----
For all those who don't get it, languages don't scale, architectures do.
    Blaine Cook
----
Faster means cheaper, it doesn't mean more scalable.
    Blaine Cook
----
We are not solving problems, we are approximating solutions.
    Sean Parent
----
All problems of scale become a network problem.
    Sean Parent
----
Programming in of itself is just an activity, like brushing your teeth. In the
same way brushing your teeth doesn't make you a dentist, writing code doesn't
make you an engineer, artist, or scientist.
    Christopher Diggins
----
If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with
memorable people.
    Bill Taylor
----
From what I've seen of it, PHP isn't so much a language as a random collection
of arbitrary stuff, a virtual explosion at the keyword and function factory.
    Jeff Atwood
----
All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable
crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML,
replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.
    Tim Bray
----
One day, you may need a super-scalable architecture to keep up with the
traffic. But before that, it's more important to focus on building a great
software that makes people happy.
    Jerry Luk
----
The Golden Rule of Data Manipulation: It is always easier and more flexible to
combine data elements rather than to break them apart.
    Jeff Smith
----
Is the community around a product more important than the product itself?
    Jeff Atwood
----
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that
I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad
parts.
    Douglas Crockford
----
It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful
testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type
checking finds are no the errors I worry about.
    Douglas Crockford
----
Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.
    Douglas Crockford
----
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements
into a set of functions and data structures.
    Douglas Crockford
----
Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive
life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct
program is extremely challenging.
    Douglas Crockford
----
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it
matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
    Douglas Crockford
----
Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost.
There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a
documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training
costs.
    Douglas Crockford
----
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.
    Douglas Crockford
----
The worst interview question is the question taken out of context.
    Sasha Goldshtein
----
Efficiency and quality are of equal importance!! Both come from experience, not
from study. Study as you go, don't assume that you're ready for the real world
because you studied first.
    Jon Davis
----
The [iPhone] SDK has more restrictions than Guantanamo.
    Matt Buchanan
----
Closures are the new web framework, everybody wants one.
    Dick Wall
----
I admit it, programming pleases me sexually.
    Daniel Fischer
----
It's as easy to hire great Ruby programmers as it is to hire great Java
programmers or great programmers for any given popular language. The problem
is, it's not easy to hire great programmers in any language.
    Jay Fields
----
50% of all people doing business software development should find a new
profession.
    Jay Fields
----
Creativity is your most important asset in development, and the first one to go
with sleep deprivation.
    Daniel Haran
----
The art of programming is finding patterns where others see only chaos.
    Eric Filson
----
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
    Eric Severeid
----
The user is NOT a lower life form
    Ken Becker
----
True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's
about encouraging communication.
    Ed Scholssberg
----
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
    Ben Shneiderman
----
The joy of an early release lasts but a short time. The bitterness of an
unusable system lasts for years.
    Anonymous Release Engineer
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If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a
likeable person.
    Alan Cooper
----
Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something
simple.
    Albert Einstein
----
Never use a warning when you mean undo.
    Aza Raskin
----
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a
platform.
    Dave Winer
----
Marketing has long known how to exploit fads and how to develop trends.
    Geoffrey Moore
----
As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This
is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a
dream.
    Geoffrey Moore
----
The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with
undercapitalization.
    Geoffrey Moore
----
To enter the maintsteam market is an act of aggression. The companies who have
already established relationships with your target customer will resent your
intrusion and do everything they can to shut you out.
    Geoffrey Moore
----
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
    Roy Carlson
----
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
    Norm Schryer
----
If you have too many special cases, you are doing it wrong.
    Craig Zerouni
----
Testing can show the presence of bugs, not their absence.
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
----
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
    Brian Kernighan
----
The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast
and much easier to understand.
    Douglas W. Jones
----
Whenever possible, steal code.
    Tom Duff
----
I would rather write programs to help me write programs than write programs.
    Dick Sites
----
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
    H.H. Williams
----
One person's constant is another person's variable.
    Susan Gerhart
----
One person's data is another person's program.
    Guy L. Steele, Jr.
----
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than
women's fashion.
    Larry Ellison
----
When in doubt, use brute force.
    Ken Thompson, Bell Labs
----
Avoid arc-sine and arc-cosine functions---you can usually do better by applying
a trig identity or computing a vector dot-product.
    Jim Conyngham, Arvin/Calspan Advanced Technology Center
----
Allocate four digits for the year part of a date: a new millennium is
approaching.
    David Martin, Norristown, Pennsylvania
----
Avoid asymmetry.
    Andy Huber, Data General Corporation
----
If you can't write it down in English, you can't code it.
    Peter Halpern, Brooklyn, New York
----
Details count.
    Peter Weinberger, Bell Labs
----
Get your data structures correct first, and the rest of the program will write
itself.
    David Jones, Assen, The Netherlands
----
A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking
point by computer-generated inputs.
    Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
----
Twenty percent of all input forms filled by people contain bad data.
    Vic Vyssotsky, Bell Labs
----
Eighty percent of all input forms ask questions they have no business asking.
    Mike Garey, Bell Labs
----
Don't make the user interface provide information that the system already knows.
    Rick Lemmons, Cardinal Data Systems
----
For 80% of all data sets, 95% of the information can be seen in a good graph.
    William S. Cleveland, Bell Labs
----
Do you really need to scale this now when you have two users per day ?!
    Ido Kanner seeing premature scaling for software
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Premature scaling is a root for bad design
    Ido Kanner
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Of all my programming bugs, 80% are syntax errors. Of the remaining 20%, 80%
are trivial logical errors. Of the remaining 4%, 80% are pointer errors. And
the remaining 0.8% are hard.
    Marc Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
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It takes three times the effort to find and fix bugs in system test than when
done by the developer. It takes ten times the effort to find and fix bugs in
the field than when done in system test. Therefore, insist on unit tests by the
developer.
    Larry Bernstein, Bell Communications Research
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Don't debug standing up. It cuts your patience in half, and you need all you
can muster.
    Dave Storer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Don't get suckered in by the comments---they can be terribly misleading. Debug
only code.
    Dave Storer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
    Ronald Reagan, Santa Barbara, California
----
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
    Lieutenant Colonel Walt Weir, United States Army
----
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably.
    Tom Duff, Bell Labs
----
The First Rule of Program Optimization: don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it yet
    Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Systems Ltd.
----
In non-I/O-bound programs, less than four percent of a program generally
accounts for more than half of its running time.
    Don Knuth, Stanford University
----
Before optimizing, use a profiler to locate the "hot spots" of the program.
    Mike Morton, Boston, Massachusetts
----
When you turn an ordinary page of code into just a handful of instructions for
speed, expand the comments to keep the number of source lines constant.
    Mike Morton, Boston, Massachusetts
----
Good code document itself, great code use good comments as part of it's
documentation.
    Ido Kanner
----
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster than a compiler can implement
the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
    Guy L. Steele, Jr., Tartan Laboratories
----
To speed up an I/O-bound program, begin by accounting for all I/O. Eliminate
that which is unnecessary or redundant, and make the remaining as fast as
possible.
    David Martin, Norristown, Pennsylvania
----
The fastest I/O is no I/O.
    Nils-Peter Nelson, Bell Labs
----
The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are
those that aren't there.
    Gordon Bell, Encore Computer Corporation
----
Most assembly languages have a loop operation that does a compare and branch in
a single machine instruction; although it was intended for loops, it can
sometimes be used to do a general comparison very efficiently.
    Guy L. Steele, Jr., Tartan Laboratories
----
Making a wrong program worse is no sin.
    Bill McKeenan, Wang Institute
----
Electricity travels a foot in a nanosecond.
    Commodore Grace Murray Hopper, United States Navy
----
Don't include a sentence in documentation if its negation is obviously false.
    Bob Martin, AT&T Technologies
----
When explaining a command, or language feature, or hardware widget, first
describe the problem it is designed to solve.
    David Martin, Norristown, Pennsylvania
----
A {specification, design, procedure, test plan} that will not fit on one page
of 8.5-by-11 inch paper cannot be understood.
    Mark Ardis, Wang Institute
----
The job's not over until the paperwork's done.
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The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built
it.
    Richard E. Fairley, Wang Institute
----
Don't keep doing what doesn't work.
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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development
time.
    Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
----
Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system;
the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance,
and other housekeeping.
    Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon University
----
Don't write a new program if one already does more or less what you want. And
if you must write a program, use existing code to do as much of the work as
possible.
    Richard Hill, Hewlett-Packard S.A., Geneva, Switzerland
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Good customer relations double productivity.
    Larry Bernstein, Bell Communications Research
----
Translating a working program to a new language or system takes ten percent of
the original development time or manpower or cost.
    Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa
----
Don't use the computer to do things that can be efficiently done by hand.
    Richard Hill, Hewlett-Packard S.A., Geneva, Switzerland
----
Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.
    Tom Duff, Bell Labs
----
Brooks's Law of Prototypes: Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow.
    Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina
----
If you plan to throw one away, you will throw away two.
    Craig Zerouni, Computer FX Ltd., London, England
----
Prototyping cuts the work to produce a system by 40%.
    Larry Bernstein, Bell Communications Research
----
Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers: It is faster to make a
four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.
    Bill McKeenan, Wang Institute
----
Always do the hard part first. If the hard part is impossible, why waste time
on the easy part? Once the hard part is done, you're home free.

Always do the east part first. What you think at first is the easy part often
turns out to be the hard part. Once the easy part is done, you can concentrate
all your efforts on the hard part.
    Al Schapira, Bell Labs
----
Sure, 90% of all software is crap. That's because 90% of everything is crap.
    Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon University
----
If you lie to the computer, it will get you.
    Peter Farrar, Germantown, Maryland
----
If a system doesn't have to be reliable, it can do anything else.
    H.H.Williams, Oakland, California
----
KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.
----
Eschew clever rules.
    Joe Condon, Bell Labs
----
I head a nation of a million presidents.
    Chaim Weizmann
----
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
    Chaim Weizmann
----
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility,
and utility is success.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has
emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers
before you. Have faith! Go forward!
    Thomas A. Edison
----
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western
Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a
distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant
little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly
primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
    Douglas Adams
----
It is not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end.
    Douglas Adams
----
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
    Douglas Adams
----
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account
be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
----
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
    Douglas Adams
----
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered
whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
    Douglas Adams
----
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was
a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
    Douglas Adams
----
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to
do so.
    Douglas Adams
----
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
    Douglas Adams
----
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe
that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
    Douglas Adams
----
Life is wasted on the living.
    Douglas Adams
----
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long
passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven't. This is
to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other
the whole length of the corridor.
    Douglas Adams
----
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the
Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced
by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which
states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
----
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured
with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
    Douglas Adams
----
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a
giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you
are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been
good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely,
consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
    Douglas Adams
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
    George Orwell, Animal Farm
----
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies,
evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
    George Orwell
----
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general
tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
    George Orwell
----
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they
do not want to hear.
    George Orwell
----
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act
    George Orwell
----
Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any
mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an
appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties.
    George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
----
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
    George Orwell
----
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
    George Orwell
----
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is
still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
----
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise
foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the
worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become
fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.
    George Orwell
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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives
lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout
of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not
driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
    George Orwell
----
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its
adherents.
    George Orwell
----
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
    George Orwell
----
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A
man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when
viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
    George Orwell
----
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that
ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
    George Orwell
----
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
    George Orwell
----
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a
newspaper.
    George Orwell
----
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
    George Orwell
----
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than
emotional sincerity.
    George Orwell
----
Four legs good, two legs bad.
    George Orwell
----
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted,
all else follows.
    George Orwell
----
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are
conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by
people who are not frightened.
    George Orwell
----
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and
wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically
lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition,
but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a
hangover. At present, it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to
his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made
any serious effort to start, he would have been frustrated by the almost
continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of
an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors
clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the
second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed
in red. Needless to say, this person is a writer.
    George Orwell
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He is as antisocial as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a
society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it.
    George Orwell
----
He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of
people who do this, fiddling with his face towards the flames.
    George Orwell
----
He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire
of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a
certain intriguing uncertainty - which extends to Wilde himself - as to whether
they really mean anything.
    George Orwell
----
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future
conquers the past.
    George Orwell
----
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as
eternal dirt.
    George Orwell
----
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -
forever.
    George Orwell
----
In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never
free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the
bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
----
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the
indefensible.
    George Orwell
----
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
    George Orwell
----
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
    George Orwell
----
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
    George Orwell
----
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is
happiness.
    George Orwell
----
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is
suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
----
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything
can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is
effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
    George Orwell
----
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
    George Orwell
----
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
    George Orwell
----
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever
brought human equality a millimetre nearer.
    George Orwell
----
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were
altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the
age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all
the time.
    George Orwell
----
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but
it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
----
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
    George Orwell
----
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness
which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as
painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the
child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen
from below.
    George Orwell
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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
    George Orwell
----
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in
order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish
the dictatorship.
    George Orwell
----
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to
the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment
will always seem to be invincible.
    George Orwell
----
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the
opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
    George Orwell
----
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is
nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting
to it.
    George Orwell
----
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably
disappointing.
    George Orwell
----
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally
thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash
but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no
spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
----
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
    George Orwell
----
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred,
jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in
witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
----
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't
even know that fire is hot.
    George Orwell
----
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it
will get in practice.
    George Orwell
----
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be
both honest and intelligent.
    George Orwell
----
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary
change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere, it would be possible to
abolish poverty without destroying liberty.
    George Orwell
----
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is
completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
    George Orwell
----
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through
the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is
still going round the sun.
    George Orwell
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad
books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of
fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the
rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries
which they are supposed to represent.
    George Orwell
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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some
mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of
thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance
and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live
for. Only child life is real life.
    George Orwell
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is
sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not
push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible,
and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which
is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
    George Orwell
----
The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or
excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take
seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
----
The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his
limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle-class world, and everything
outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.
    George Orwell
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between
one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long
words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil,
tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer
safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
----
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain
sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
----
The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of
living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
    George Orwell
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The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx
exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are
still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or
other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to
blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet
more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.
    George Orwell
----
The "Communism" of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It
is the patriotism of the deracinated.
    George Orwell
----
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins.
Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or
less for reaction.
    George Orwell
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Throughout recorded time ... there have been three kinds of people in the
world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many
ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as
well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but
the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous
upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always
reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium,
however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups
are entirely irreconcilable.
    George Orwell
----
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the
martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full
of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
    George Orwell
----
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some
people more than others.
    George Orwell
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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept
concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes,
tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks,
submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins,
Hollywood films and political murder.
    George Orwell
----
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty
yourself.
    George Orwell
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about
the continuity of civilization.
    George Orwell
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no
reliable words. ... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never
lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against
obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the
encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases
and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
    George Orwell
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Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they,
and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
    George Orwell
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We of the sinking middle class ... may sink without further struggles into the
working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so
dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.
    George Orwell
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who
gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls
the past.
    George Orwell
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I have a quote for every event, except for this one.
    Ido Kanner
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for
it.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot
endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to
hang the traitor.
    Abraham Lincoln
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
    Abraham Lincoln
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the
flower would grow in thought and mind.
    Abraham Lincoln
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All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
    Abraham Lincoln
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
    Abraham Lincoln
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in
your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea
of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and
give us victories.
    Abraham Lincoln
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we
think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord
makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of
Independence.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to
your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe
there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my
friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Everybody likes a compliment.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it
enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we
may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we
are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in
vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that
government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have
faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do
our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the
most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us
renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
    Abraham Lincoln
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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the
sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he
was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
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He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or
impossible to make.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the
public good.
    Abraham Lincoln
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail
a leg doesn't make it a leg.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but
I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that
stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their
hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to
fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I bring to this great work a heart filled with love for my country and an
honest desire to do what is right.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have
controlled me.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end,
when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on
earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down
inside of me.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on
doing so until the end.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his
grandson will be.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last
best hope on earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient
for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this
reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to
have me.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era
of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country
will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the
people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new
views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it
does not admit of holidays.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop
may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best,
and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the
end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the
difference.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a
nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never
regain their respect and esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a
chance.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring
me some coffee.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then
better judge what to do and how to do it.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If you want to win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his
sincere friend.
    Abraham Lincoln
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his
sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say
what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once
gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the
justice of your cause.
    Abraham Lincoln
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike
in what we give and what we preserve.
    Abraham Lincoln
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    Abraham Lincoln
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They
are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time
and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work
and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
    Abraham Lincoln
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of
labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is
the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital
has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to
succeed.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work
diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
    Abraham Lincoln
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
    Abraham Lincoln
----
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Military glory - the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to
maintain its own existence?
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content
with your failure.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a
man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not
crimes.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species
of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that
it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out
of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in
the world.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing
can succeed.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time
for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences,
including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger
things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones,
though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him
in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his
love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought
into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes
and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel
of it to my other generals.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is
just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion
is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case
is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor
to the latest generation.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property
and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive
is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep
thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same
act as the destroyer of liberty.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me
a book I ain't read.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially
of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best
judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the
people.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and
from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of
the highest functions of civilization.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject
which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a
moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new
disaster with each newspaper we read.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
----
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our
bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as
surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the
new and untried.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time
thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about
him and what he is going to say.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away,
it's best to let him run.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it
tried on him personally.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from
it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of
mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest
acknowledge it in their hearts.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the
time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
    Abrahamham Lincoln
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Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed
that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.

    Archimedes, On Floating Bodies, I, prop 5
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Do not disturb my circles! (Noli turbare circulos meos.)
    Archimedes
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
    Archimedes
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There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied
mathematics.
    Archimedes
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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from
those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
    Marcus Antonius
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo,
tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee,
live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive,
extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Antonius
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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false
opinions that ruin us.
    Marcus Antonius
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the
same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to
thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms
and to make new ones like them.
    Marcus Aurelius
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The work of philosophy is simple and discreet. Let us not get carried away by
the swollen puffiness of solemn affectation.
    Marcus Aurelius
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
    Marcus Aurelius
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A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts,
for then superfluous activity will not follow.
    Marcus Aurelius
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A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
    Marcus Aurelius
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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate
brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love
sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall
live.
    Marcus Aurelius
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it
were the last.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is
beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of
man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Constantly observe everything that takes place by change, and adapt yourself to
consider that the universe's nature loves nothing as much as changing things
that are, and making new things like them. In a way, everything that exists is
like the seed of what it will be.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that
make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard
service of the flesh.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble
up, if you just dig.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with,
and the future is uncertain.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
    Marcus Aurelius
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be
bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
    Marcus Aurelius
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does
or thinks.
    Marcus Aurelius
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I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of
men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions
of others.
    Marcus Aurelius
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
    Marcus Aurelius
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If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing
nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with
heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy.
And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
    Marcus Aurelius
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing
itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at
any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your
own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
    Marcus Aurelius
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to
live.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but
ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you
confine it strictly to its own limits.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and
see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this
custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your
elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou
wilt always search there.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate
systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself
to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change
the things which are, and to make new things like them.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Our life depends on what our thoughts make it.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those
opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what
sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are
descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you
improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with
you, and be lost beyond recovery.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
    Marcus Aurelius
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That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
    Marcus Aurelius
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and
examine their pursuits and aversions.
    Marcus Aurelius
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence.
Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract
humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
    Jean Arp
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a
room.
    Blaise Pascal
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
    Blaise Pascal
----
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken
it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
    Blaise Pascal
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
    Blaise Pascal
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will
come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you
gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that
He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
----
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing
in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
----
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he
lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine,
though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or
acquire them.
    Blaise Pascal
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes
voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
    Blaise Pascal
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
    Blaise Pascal
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in
hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the
game.
    Voltaire
----
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact
    Voltaire
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say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you"
    Voltaire
----
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them
    Voltaire
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
    Voltaire
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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that
has ever infected the world
    Voltaire
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional
assassination.
    Voltaire
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be
gained from him.
    Voltaire
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path
always throw stones at those who are showing a new road
    Voltaire
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It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce
    Voltaire
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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters
    Voltaire
----
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not,
discovers to me his existence.
    Voltaire
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is
    Voltaire
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
    Voltaire
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
    Voltaire
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
    Voltaire
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
    Voltaire
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks
    Voltaire
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Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god.
    Voltaire
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly
    Voltaire
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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say
    Voltaire
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too
    Voltaire
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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very
little.
    Voltaire
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them
    Voltaire
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can
pay for the benefit of the other third.
    Voltaire
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
    Voltaire
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There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions
    Voltaire
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
    Voltaire
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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm
    Voltaire
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Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist
    Voltaire
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If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
    Voltaire
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
    Voltaire
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the
abuse itself.
    Voltaire
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Only your friends steal your books
    Voltaire
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The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool
    Voltaire
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books
    Voltaire
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire
tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most
intolerant of all men
    Voltaire
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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth
    Voltaire
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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
    Voltaire
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His face bespoke his soul
    Voltaire
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest
are lost in the multitude
    Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the
rest of mankind.
    Voltaire
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The best is the enemy of the good.
    Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong
to us as well
    Voltaire
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken
the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the
spirit gives life.
    Voltaire
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
    Voltaire
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by
defying it that the brave escape.
    Voltaire
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
    Voltaire
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
    Voltaire
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a
clockmaker.
    Voltaire
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void,
or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of
their abode.
    Voltaire
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to
the world.
    Voltaire
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
    Voltaire
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All succeeds with people who are of cheerful disposition
    Voltaire
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A long dispute means both parties are wrong
    Voltaire
----
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common
sense
    Voltaire
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which
depends the rest of our days.
    Voltaire
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead
    Voltaire
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a
knowledge of God
    Voltaire
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Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's
throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human
happiness
    Voltaire
----
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our
peril, risk and hazard.
    Voltaire
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
    Voltaire
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
    Voltaire
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History is fables agreed upon.
    Voltaire
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying
to play the angel.
    Voltaire
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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation
    Voltaire
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That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden
    Voltaire
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure
diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing
    Voltaire
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries
aloud that He does exist.
    Voltaire
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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms
    Voltaire
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only
to conceal their thoughts
    Voltaire
----
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
    Voltaire
----
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally
free
    Voltaire
----
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
    Voltaire
----
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
    Voltaire
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
    Voltaire
----
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of
course exterminated
    Voltaire
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
    Voltaire
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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good
for nothing
    Voltaire
----
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they
think!
    Voltaire
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has
done real evil
    Voltaire
----
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be
thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
    Voltaire
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
    Voltaire
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
    Voltaire
----
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course,
that he really is dead.
    Voltaire
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
    Voltaire
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Illusion is the first of the pleasures
    Voltaire
----
It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.
    Voltaire
----
Clever tyrants are never punished.
    Voltaire
----
We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
    Voltaire
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
    Voltaire
----
You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts
    Voltaire
----
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before
destroying them
    Voltaire
----
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
    Voltaire
----
You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the
Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated
the human mind and annihilated reason
    Voltaire
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who
speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy
    Voltaire
----
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
    Voltaire
----
They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the
middle excellent
    Voltaire
----
The person ready to believe unlikely and unproved things is readily made a
slave of by the crafty
    Voltaire
----
Prejudice is the reason of fools
    Voltaire
----
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow
belly and spotted back
    Voltaire
----
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
    Voltaire
----
In this country it is considered wise to kill an admiral from time to time in
order to encourage the others
    Voltaire
----
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised
himself.
    Voltaire
----
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who
shoot best
    Voltaire
----
I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me
    Voltaire
----
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to
be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
    Voltaire
----
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion
    Voltaire
----
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
    Voltaire
----
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment
    Voltaire
----
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting
superstition
    Voltaire
----
Whatever you do, stamp out abuses, and love those who love you.
    Voltaire
----
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
    Voltaire
----
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but
they are seldom or ever inventors.
    Voltaire
----
There are no sects in geometry
    Voltaire
----
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
    Voltaire
----
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however,
that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
    Voltaire
----
The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason
badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil,
and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of
things and of inev
    Voltaire
----
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
    Voltaire
----
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from
his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail
it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and
pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    Voltaire
----
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
virginity could be a virtue.
    Voltaire
----
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty
odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan,
and girls to the waning of their color
    Voltaire
----
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct
    Voltaire
----
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
    Voltaire
----
The poor man is never free; he serves in every country
    Voltaire
----
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
    Voltaire
----
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
    Voltaire
----
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all
mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
    Voltaire
----
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made
them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
    Voltaire
----
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
And God granted it.
    Voltaire
----
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not
confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted
that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men
that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably
above him who imagined innate ideas.
    Voltaire
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A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
    Voltaire
----
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
    Voltaire
----
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman
Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
    Voltaire
----
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions
    Voltaire
----
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other
    Voltaire
----
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he
is not of the same opinion, is a monster
    Voltaire
----
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
    Voltaire
----
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today
neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero
    Voltaire
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do
    Voltaire
----
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of
living well.
    Voltaire
----
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of
a wise mother
    Voltaire
----
Whatever you do, crush the infamy
    Voltaire
----
Love truth, but pardon error
    Voltaire
----
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers
borrowed one from another.
    Voltaire
----
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your
annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
    Voltaire
----
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when
they die.
    Voltaire
----
Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
    Voltaire
----
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness
    Voltaire
----
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
    Voltaire
----
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly
    Voltaire
----
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection
of the laws
    Voltaire
----
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass
quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is
their power to harm us.
    Voltaire
----
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
    Voltaire
----
From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people
From the people come the power
From this power come the change
    Peter Gabriel
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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing
that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process
rather than a piece of product.
    Peter Gabriel
----
As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to
take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood.
    Peter Gabriel, on Genesis
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look
after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of
different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds
off.
    Peter Gabriel
----
Without a good library, most interesting tasks are hard to do in C++;
but given a good library, almost any task can be made easy.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who
considered his work important.
    Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the
hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to
apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A
little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
    Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
----
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true
happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
    Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
    Bertrand Russell
----
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will
allow a solution.
    Bertrand Russell
----
War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.
    Bertrand Russell
----
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the
chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
    Bertrand Russell
----
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward
his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of
value.
    Bertrand Russell
----
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor
    Bertrand Russell
----
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive,
in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the
impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize
what is possessed by others.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of
cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their
relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied
Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who
never existed.
    Bertrand Russell
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge
    Bertrand Russell
----
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric.
    Bertrand Russell
----
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of
undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in
prostitution.
    Bertrand Russell
----
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true
    Bertrand Russell
----
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure
    Bertrand Russell
----
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this
ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to
madmen and dictators
    Bertrand Russell
----
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted.
    Bertrand Russell
----
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
    Bertrand Russell
----
It [the world] must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love
is purged of the instinct for domination, in which cruelty and envy have been
dispelled by happiness and the unfettered development of all the instincts that
build up life and fill it with mental delights. Such a world is possible; it
waits only for men to wish to create it.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the
longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind.
    Bertrand Russel
----
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem
worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will
believe it.
    Bertrand Russel
----
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with
security.
    Bertrand Russel
----
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
    Bertrand Russel
----
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts
dead.
    Bertrand Russel
----
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will
fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the
realization of desires
    Bertrand Russell
----
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the
principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women
throughout the greater part of their lives.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to
think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    Bertrand Russell
----
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face
the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths
    Bertrand Russell
----
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
----
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be
anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that
there cannot be any validity in that argument
    Bertrand Russell
----
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness
    Bertrand Russell
----
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the
pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the
courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die
is an unworthy one
    Bertrand Russell
----
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
    Bertrand Russell
----
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it
will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this
dragon is religion
    Bertrand Russell
----
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an
intellectual vice
    Bertrand Russell
----
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
    Bertrand Russell
----
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based
upon it.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible
    Bertrand Russell
----
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an
atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live
    Bertrand Russell
----
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is
an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race
    Bertrand Russell
----
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is
its exact opposite
    Bertrand Russell
----
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good
evidence either way
    Bertrand Russell
----
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists.
That is why they invented Hell.
    Bertrand Russell
----
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great
art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover
the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of
love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
----
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation
and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary
submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
    Bertrand Russell
----
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing
so; at other times he thinks about other things
    Bertrand Russell
----
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it
tries to stir up friendly feeling?
    Bertrand Russell
----
Sin is geographical.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really
important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and
real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
----
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it
again if the chance were offered me.
    Bertrand Russell
----
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
    Bertrand Russell
----
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
    Bertrand Russell
----
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some
things are more nearly certain than others
    Bertrand Russell
----
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it
is not utterly absurd.
    Bertrand Russell
----
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
----
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure
that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener,
I'm convinced of the opposite.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man,
which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as in poetry
    Bertrand Russell
----
God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even
as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
    Bertrand Russell
----
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching
and the spirit in which the teaching is given
    Bertrand Russell
----
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization,
and at present very few people have reached this level.
    Bertrand Russell
----
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others
also happy
    Bertrand Russell
----
I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people
are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good
time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in
how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held
tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead
to their abandonment.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are
all prone
    Bertrand Russell
----
It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is
to be angry with a car that won't go
    Bertrand Russell
----
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its
churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the
world
    Bertrand Russell
----
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
    Bertrand Russell
----
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly
    Bertrand Russell
----
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been
searching for evidence which could support this.
    Bertrand Russell
----
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love
their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had
supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I
discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that
intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten percent
of them prefer truth to popularity.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to
look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but
rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to
live in, instead
    Bertrand Russell
----
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact
    Bertrand Russell
----
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work
adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner
creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
    Bertrand Russell
----
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors
carefully.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if
physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
    Bertrand Russell
----
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to
feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but
part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and
unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the
longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the
gloomiest person happy.
    Bertrand Russell
----
If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose
the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships
    Bertrand Russell
----
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will
allow a solution
    Bertrand Russell
----
You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a
little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against
whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism
    Bertrand Russell
----
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of
mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
    Bertrand Russell
----
It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive
sexual pleasure from intercourse
    Bertrand Russell
----
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his
desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is
offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely,
and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on
the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in
accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
The origin of myths is explained in this way.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at
all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not
personally concerned
    Bertrand Russell
----
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was
recent
    Bertrand Russell
----
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their
country.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
    Bertrand Russell
----
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate governmental action
    Bertrand Russell
----
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
    Bertrand Russell
----
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but
do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
    Bertrand Russell
----
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by
hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for
those who study it
    Bertrand Russell
----
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to
be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free
than a slave
    Bertrand Russell
----
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they
confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they
impose slavery
    Bertrand Russell
----
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to
a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce
self-interest
    Bertrand Russell
----
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no
good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of
liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained
in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate
    Bertrand Russell
----
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which
adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and
let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as
possible friendly rather than hostile.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required
for cooperation with oneself.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the
achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
    Bertrand Russell
----
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and
love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to
say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
    Bertrand Russell
----
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about
nor whether what is said is true
    Bertrand Russell
----
By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of
life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are
emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual
    Bertrand Russell
----
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a
beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture
    Bertrand Russell
----
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting
convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day
    Bertrand Russell
----
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed
    Bertrand Russell
----
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be
kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of
birth control would prefer.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and
did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
    Bertrand Russell
----
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do
with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like
Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of
accidents
    Bertrand Russell
----
I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions
    Bertrand Russell
----
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy
by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to
my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject
    Bertrand Russell
----
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical
faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
    Bertrand Russell
----
In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We
are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation
    Bertrand Russell
----
There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and
antidote.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was
twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining
his wives' mouths.
    Bertrand Russell
----
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and
unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should
say, result from paucity of experience.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of
people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
    Bertrand Russell
----
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely
negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness
    Bertrand Russell
----
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my
face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
    Bertrand Russell
----
We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may
never see.
    Bertrand Russell
----
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People
wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
----
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering
into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which
regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the
unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches
extend into heaven.
    Bertrand Russell
----
A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be
obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion
is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth
knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels
were very useful to me.
    Bertrand Russell
----
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to
death with a loaded Uzi
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's
still running.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it
anyway.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've
been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular
applications are more likely to be proprietary.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial
inventions.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite
astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and
make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and
get it used, that's great.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development,
and some of the time it's just goofing off.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and
I always want to do everything at once.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it,
it's probably too serious.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register
patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing
code.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power
structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power
structures.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more
complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language,
it's more expressive.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music
and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still
coming to computer science.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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Programmers can be lazy.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a
cultural artist.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than
anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first
place.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature,
humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and
Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it
done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on
Perl 6.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what
it is supposed to be.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's
necessary to compromise.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a
community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power.
So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the
old hackers are. We're all over the map.
    Larry Wall, http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/quotes-from-larry-wall-unix-and-linux.html
----
He who lives by the sword, die by the sword
    The way of the warrior
----
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
    Jane Austen
----
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
    Sun Tzu
----
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the
deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by
you even unto death.
    Sun Tzu
----
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
    Sun Tzu
----
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
----
War is based on deception.
    Sun Tzu
----
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not
coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not
attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
    Sun Tzu
----
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without
strategy is the noise before defeat.
    Sun Tzu
----
You have to believe in yourself.
    Sun Tzu
----
Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall
like a thunderbolt.
    Sun Tzu
----
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to
war first and then seek to win.
    Sun Tzu
----
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a
hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
----
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
    Sun Tzu
----
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
    Sun Tzu
----
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely
mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director
of the opponent's fate.
    Sun Tzu
----
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.
    Sun Tzu
----
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then,
until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
    Sun Tzu
----
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
    Sun Tzu
----
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat,
and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
    Sun Tzu
----
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
    Sun Tzu
----
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of
skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
    Sun Tzu
----
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
    Sun Tzu
----
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem
unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must
make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe
we are near.
    Sun Tzu
----
All war is deception.
    Sun Tzu
----
The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the
one who has the most strategic factors on his side.
    Sun Tzu
----
If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt;
if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
    Sun Tzu
----
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but
the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
    Sun Tzu
----
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
    Sun Tzu
----
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have
their rewards.
    Sun Tzu
----
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a
deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they
are then able to strive for victory.
    Sun Tzu
----
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
    Sun Tzu
----
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
    Sun Tzu
----
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the
strategy out of which victory is evolved.
    Sun Tzu
----
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the
covetous man, and the stupid man.
    Sun Tzu
----
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's
country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
    Sun Tzu
----
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
    Sun Tzu
----
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the
victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and
afterwards looks for victory.
    Sun Tzu
----
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
    Sun Tzu
----
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its
every move.
    Sun Tzu
----
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to
defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to
attack.
    Sun Tzu
----
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before
the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations
beforehand.
    Sun Tzu
----
Do not press an enemy at bay.
    Sun Tzu
----
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he
captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom
without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the
mastery of the emp
    Sun Tzu
----
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can
the dead ever be brought back to life.
    Sun Tzu
----
A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.
    Sun Tzu
----
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the
enemy wishes for a truce.
    Sun Tzu
----
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to
be swayed by petty doubts.
    Sun Tzu
----
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight
and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few
troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire
are victorious.
    Sun Tzu
----
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage
against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for
them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
    Sun Tzu
----
defeat the enemies strategy
    Sun Tzu
----
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables
it to strike and destroy its victim.
    Sun Tzu
----
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible,
through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
    Sun Tzu
----
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five
give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
    Sun Tzu
----
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy
whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is
foreknowledge.
    Sun Tzu
----
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a
distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they
are disinclined to longevity.
    Sun Tzu
----
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing
disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for
his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
----
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape.
Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans
against you.
    Sun Tzu
----
So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.
    Sun Tzu
----
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone
calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.
    Sun Tzu
----
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital
importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to
safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.
    Sun Tzu
----
It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is
not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.
    Sun Tzu
----
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there
are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
----
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army
first battles and then seeks victory.
    Sun Tzu
----
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how
can that help you to victory?
    Sun Tzu
----
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the
secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret
agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret
operations.
    Sun Tzu
----
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the
ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not
fight, even at the ruler's bidding.
    Sun Tzu
----
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's
substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will
be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of
strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes
dissipated.
    Sun Tzu
----
One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
    Sun Tzu
----
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his
attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste
of time and general stagnation.
    Sun Tzu
----
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the
enemy's will to be imposed on him.
    Sun Tzu
----
I know why it has the name "C" and "C++" for the languages: It's the grade of
the language...
    Ido Kanner
----
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or
more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Before all else, be armed.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we
should see through it.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself,
the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither
for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good,
and the third kind useless.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion
held in contempt
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or
honor, they are satisfied
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than
feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we
should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if
we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum
up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his
being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and
not on what rests with others.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have
eyes, but few have the gift of penetration
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of
good manners that law may be maintained
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope
except in arms.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference
between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch,
because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees
what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare
take a stand against the general opinion.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of
gain.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity
of the present.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that
share of glory which belongs to us
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Never was anything great achieved without danger
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Politics have no relation to morals.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor
more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver
will never lack victims for his deceptions
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance
need not be feared
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself
from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore
be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to
be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to
keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the
reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this
precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe
their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try
to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in
such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you
have a ready and quick defense
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He
must inflict them once and for all.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his
interests.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge
for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within
society.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until
it is ripe for execution.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to
presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act
according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all
unarmed prophets have been destroyed.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and
when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But
when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs,
they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their
particular observations.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves
against attack, and then they attack others.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one
whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give
less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may
be relished the more.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a
breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability
to execute, military plans.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily
comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple
virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men
strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to
his example.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which
likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by
compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
There is no other way for securing yourself against flatteries except that men
understand that they do not offend you by telling you the truth; but when
everybody can tell you the truth, you fail to get respect
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs
by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or
emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in
the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his
own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness
about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when
the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good
deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by
aiming high they can reach the target.
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they
were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by
those that are
    Niccolo Machiavelli
----
According to Jim the sequence of Blob creation is as follows:
1. Barry Robinson, my boss at DEC, was prone to wandering around muttering
"blobs, blobs, we gotta have blobs." When I asked what a blob was, he pointed
out that I was the architect and that was my job.
    Seen at http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?page=ibp_blobs
----
According to Jim the sequence of Blob creation is as follows:
4. The retired bouncer hired to head the DSRI process rules that blobs were in,
but had to be renamed "segmented strings" to avoid offending Clevelandites (or
whatever).
    Seen at http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?page=ibp_blobs
----
According to Jim the sequence of Blob creation is as follows:
5. Much later, Terry McKiever, an Apollo marketing gnome, fell in love with the
concept of blob, but felt the blob needed to be an acronym. She started calling
them "basic large objects." Apollo never private labelled the product, so this
should be irrelevant. Unfortunately, her ravings got the attention of Informix
(I think) who announced that they would support "binary large objects" at some
future time. The damage was done.
    Seen at http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?page=ibp_blobs
----
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what
you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
    Epicurus
----
Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you
deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving
in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on
what you believe, and not what others believe.
    Barbara De Angelis
----
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must
always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and
smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart..
i'll always be with you.
    Winnie the Pooh
----
The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget
it.
    Bill Clayton
----
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us.
When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're
still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more
promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a
partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible
for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe
otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual
failure every relationship we enter.
    Tom Robbins
----
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with
a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
    Albert Einstein
----
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two.
We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.'
    Sir Arthur Eddington
----
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
    Swedish Proverb
----
As pascal shows, something proven is often better as some hype ;)
    Florian Klaempfl, seen at http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org/msg00209.html
----
With risk there may be change; with change there must always be risk.
    Dale Wyllie
----
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection.
    Buddha
----
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.
    Jalaluddin Rumi
----
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
    Benjamin Spock
----
Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
    Brian Tracy
----
Only the shallow know themselves.
    Oscar Wilde
----
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me
far too conceited.
    Oscar Wilde
----
You never find yourself until you face the truth
    Pearl Bailey
----
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
    Earl Wilson
----
You cannot hate other people without hating your self
    Oprah Winfrey
----
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
    Lawrence Clark Powell
----
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help
section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose
    George Carlin
----
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self
control to be understanding and forgiving.
    Dale Carnegie
----
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
    Theodore Roosevelt
----
Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.
    Wayne Dyer
----
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
    Sheldon Kopp
----
Good government is no substitute for self-government
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
    Pietro Aretino
----
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved
by a clever woman.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
----
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am,
you might not like it--and that's all I got.
    Sabrina Ward Harrison
----
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the
self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
    Thomas S. Szasz
----
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he
instruct others.
    Buddha
----
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control
what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables
you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
----
People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel
    Irwin Federman
----
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.
    Gerard Way
----
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
    Jane Austen
----
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The
one nearest the door of course.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
    Oscar Wilde
----
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her
as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
    Oscar Wilde
----
Not all those who wander are lost.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly
usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something
you were after.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead
the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet,
until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither
then? I cannot say.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it
to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It is a dangerous business going out your front door.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
The wise speak only of what they know.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Courage is found in unlikely places.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live
near him.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
A star shone at the hour of our meeting.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out
your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no
knowing where you might be swept off to.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than
I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old
that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From
the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring;
renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's
swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still
die upon them
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good
morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or
that it is a morning to be good on?
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones
that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their
paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances,
like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know,
because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and
not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and
not outside it call a good end
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do
all the things one wants to know about.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it
boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have
similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently
prefer.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
What do you fear my lady?
A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of
valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark
lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir,
don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a
merrier world.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To bring him news of his beloved son's death
would be most unwise. And don't mention Frodo or the ring. And say nothing of
Aragorn either. In fact, it's best if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my
brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A
day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and
break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and
shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this
day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you
*stand, Men of the West!*
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Fealty with love, Valor with honor, oathbreaking with vengeance.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
That is Shadowfax. He is cheif of the Maeras, lords of all horses, and not even
Theoden, King of Rohan, has ever looked on a better. Does he not shine like
silver, and run as smoothly as a swift stream?
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Everything to me that is the most important, and the most moving in the book,
they've gotten on the stage.
    Rachel Tolkien
----
It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed,
though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them
up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
hope is not victory
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot
forever fence it out.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
It's like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a
little time to wait now.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones
that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their
paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances,
like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know,
because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and
not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and
not outside it call a good end
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its
pocketses?'
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in
battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose
the latter.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are
before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien
field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own forever. Oaths ye have
taken: now fulfil them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's
dreams, we can be together all the time.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time
to enjoy where we are.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink
whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how
hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and
blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable
and that life has order and direction.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
I can't tell if that's funny or really scary.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success,
flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right
mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition.
Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to
say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop
you when...Hello?
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Girls are like slugs. They serve some purpose but it's hard to imagine what.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
"I've been thinking Hobbes --"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Do you think there is a God? ... Well, somebody's out to get me.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Don't walk away! I'm trying to apologize you dumb noodleloaf!
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body
experience.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Maybe then I can finish my book.
    Calvin & Hobbes
----
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come
drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication,
depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
    Joseph Heller
----
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for
military service.
    Joseph Heller
----
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
    Joseph Heller
----
Procastination is the thief of time.
    Joseph Heller
----
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have
nothing all night long.
    Joseph Heller
----
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
    Joseph Heller
----
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's
on.
    Joseph Heller
----
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm
tempted to reply, "Who has?"
    Joseph Heller
----
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern
for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was
the process of a rational mind.
    Joseph Heller
----
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
    Joseph Heller
----
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
    Joseph Heller
----
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
    Joseph Heller
----
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Joseph Heller
----
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the
whole field to private industry.
    Joseph Heller
----
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't,
don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
    Joseph Heller
----
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of
going crazy.
    Joseph Heller
----
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid
well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
    Joseph Heller
----
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
    Joseph Heller
----
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could
with both of them
    Joseph Heller
----
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for
heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining
other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
    Joseph Heller
----
Rise above principal and do what's right.
    Joseph Heller
----
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical
order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to
worry about.
    Joseph Heller
----
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
    Joseph Heller
----
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were
finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the
point.
    Joseph Heller
----
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
    Joseph Heller
----
[(CNN) --] Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy, ...
Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts -- and the question is: What does a
sane man do in an insane society?
    Joseph Heller
----
[Catch22] specified that a concern for one's safety ... was the process of a
rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask,
and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more
missions.
    Joseph Heller
----
A large part of the public sentiment was my own, ... They saw an absurd
quality, a mendacious quality in many of our political leaders and business
leaders.
    Joseph Heller
----
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of
your life.
    Michael Sinz
----
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have
had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally
mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is
an 'idiosyncrasy'.
    Guy Kawasaki
----
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the
future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
of coding bums.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women
pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
    Werner von Braun
----
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an
intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer',
you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is
beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft
building progress by weight.
    Bill Gates
----
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman
numerals
    Henry Spencer
----
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing,
and as productive. It ought to be as free.
    Richard Stallman
----
I've always said my career is somewhere between children's programming and
hard-core porn.
    Gilbert Gottfried
----
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man
years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and
distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money
in hobby software.
    Bill Gates
----
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have
originated in California.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
    John Carmack
----
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer
doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it
for the love of programming.
    John Carmack
----
They don't watch programs anymore; they watch pieces of programs.
    Barrie Heeter
----
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show
their absence!
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the
question of whether a submarine can swim.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded
as a criminal offense.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without
thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide
behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't
make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one
to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work,
you've messed up.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an
intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer',
you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is
beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the
future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
of coding bums.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as
rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.
    Edsger Dijkstra
----
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think,
"By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will
run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something
something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on
humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application
of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves.
    Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
----
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and
just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which
way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
    John Carmack
----
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
    John Carmack
----
It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
    John Carmack
----
Think of what we, and others, are doing as building the largest roller coaster
in the world. Rocket science is mythologized out of whack with its difficulty.
Nine out of 10 people will fail, but one of us will eventually get through.
    John Carmack
----
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert
for multiple hours.
    John Carmack
----
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
    John Carmack
----
The speed of light sucks.
    John Carmack
----
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They
are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is
right now.
    John Carmack
----
Sony sort of takes this position where, [they say] 'Okay, it's going to be
difficult, maybe its going to suck to do this, but the good game developers are
going to suck it up and make it work.' There's some truth to that, ... There
will be the developers that go ahead and have a miserable time and do get good
performance out of some of these multi-core approaches. And Cell is worse than
others in some respects, here.
    John Carmack
----
Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't.
    Alan Perlis
----
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much
duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
    Alan Perlis
----
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
    Alan Perlis
----
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
    Alan Perlis
----
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program.
What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts,
devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
    Alan Perlis
----
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
    Alan Perlis
----
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses
remove it.
    Alan Perlis
----
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines);
seek it everywhere.
    Alan Perlis
----
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
    Alan Perlis
----
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not
substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
    Alan Perlis
----
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the
continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
    Alan Perlis
----
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't
control when the 5 year period will begin.
    Alan Perlis
----
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly
any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
    Alan Perlis
----
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
    Alan Perlis
----
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
    Alan Perlis
----
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
    Alan Perlis
----
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
    Alan Perlis
----
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the
irrelevant.
    Alan Perlis
----
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what
I wish done," give him a lollipop.
    Alan Perlis
----
Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
    Alan Perlis, Yale University
----
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the
word "frustration".
    Alan Perlis
----
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
    Alan Perlis
----
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
    Alan Perlis
----
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
    Alan Perlis
----
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
    Alan Perlis
----
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be
discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
    Alan Perlis
----
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
    Alan Perlis
----
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but
that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
    Alan Perlis
----
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
    Alan Perlis
----
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
    Alan Perlis
----
Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness
    Euripides
----
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power
to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
    Barbara De Angelis
----
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.
    Lao Tzu
----
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual
you think you can't live without.
    Sr. James C. Dobson
----
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
    John J. Plomp
----
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you
are of loving in the present.
    Barbara De Angelis
----
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a
confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self
control to be understanding and forgiving.
    Dale Carnegie
----
Success builds character, failure reveals it
    Dave Checkett
----
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
    George Moore
----
May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be
yours, whatever you do and may God send many blessings to you.
    Irish Blessings
----
Always do what you are afraid to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
    Rosanne Cash
----
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
    Frederick Smith
----
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You
develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
    Epicurus
----
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the
difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is
attitude.
    William James
----
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
    Anthony Robbins
----
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story.
It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the
final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
    Emil Ludwig
----
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous -
everyone hasn't met me yet.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex
every night. Now, we'll never see each other!
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her
boyfriend
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me
up
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of
the light.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said
okay, you're ugly too.
    Rodney Dangerfield
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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
    Rodney Dangerfield
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I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
    Rodney Dangerfield
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girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I
went over. Nobody was home.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a
pyramid.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations -
we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my
father. He said he wanted more proof.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't
drink from my glass.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt
another hand.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've
just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told
me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his
wallet
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My mother never breast-fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I
woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be
honest.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my
calendar and wanted to know who May was.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I'm so ugly - My mother had morning sickness - After I was born
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about
the butcher and my wife.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the
garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on
it.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being
impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we
are talking about
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys
laughing at me.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the
best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When
he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
Life is just a bowl of pits.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or
going.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said
'God beat me to it.'
    Rodney Dangerfield
----
It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my
life at all.
    Jimmy Carr
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fans have been writing in asking why the show hasn't made a return. Bosses felt
it was the right time.
    Jimmy Carr
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yambch - Yet Another Mysql Bug that Caused me an Headache
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a
cloud without coming through.
    Jules Verne
----
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real
    Jules Verne
----
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its
breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely,
for he feels life stirring on all sides.
    Jules Verne
----
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is
useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
    Jules Verne
----
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan--by faith,
not by reason.
    Jules Verne
----
The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of
doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds
being launched into space; they asked what cannon could ever transmit a
sufficient velocity to such a mighty mass.
    Jules Verne
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
    Jules Verne
----
To those who were not familiar with the motions of the moon, they demonstrated
that she possesses two distinct motions, the first being that of rotation upon
her axis, the second being that of revolution round the earth, accomplishing
both together in an equal period of time, that is to say, in twenty-seven and
one-third days.
    Jules Verne
----
Ah, pierce me 100 times with your needles fine and I will thank you 100 times,
Saint Morphine, you who Aeseulapus has made a God.
    Jules Verne
----
Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of
this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic,
or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where
did error begin?
    Jules Verne
----
Liberty is worth paying for ...
    Jules Verne
----
This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the
rapidity of lightning. I shivered all over. Whom had we to deal with? No doubt
some new sort of pirates, who explored the sea in their own way. Hardly had the
narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness.
    Jules Verne
----
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having
accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance
greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what
was reserved for the future?
    Jules Verne
----
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the
world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably
under such conditions.
    Jules Verne
----
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the
north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen
hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of
one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
    Jules Verne
----
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable
curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky
Mountains. It was a fatality!
    Jules Verne
----
He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large
hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings. A flunkey
handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which
betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.
    Jules Verne
----
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such
a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern
even the faintest glimmer.
    Jules Verne
----
On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on
the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that
little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day.
    Jules Verne
----
The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship,
told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced
the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not
escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind. My eyes did not leave the
Captain, who, with his hand stretched out to sea, was watching with a glowing
eye the glorious wreck.
    Jules Verne
----
It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching
us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed
to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were
twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
    Jules Verne
----
How much further can we go? What are the final frontiers in this quest for
travel? Will humankind only be satisfied when journeys into space become
readily available and affordable?
    Jules Verne
----
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be
educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and
above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the
world.
    Jules Verne
----
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge
that they will help us.
    Epicurus
----
What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a
message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't
listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
    Lars Ulrich
----
As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
    Lars Ulrich
----
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger
of state and corporate power
    Benito Mussolini
----
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
----
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.
    Winston Churchill
----
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must
apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are
shown. Those who do not see.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to
die.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Our life is made by the death of others.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by
even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in
proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one
companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
A well-spent day brings happy sleep
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does
inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the
customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on
their reserves.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Learning never exhausts the mind
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Nature never breaks her own laws
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Water is the driving force of all nature.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the
first of that which comes; so with present time.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies
confounds and saps itself.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling
out an eel.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather
becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the
genitals and the tongue.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without
a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I have wasted my hours
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or
more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and
nothing is superfluous.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Life well spent is long.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but
it's true.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand
that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth
that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
He turns not back who is bound to a star
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it
should have.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape
from its imperfection.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep
ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to
your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the
work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of
harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that
is felt rather than seen
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is
not in her power.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it
imitates.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The desire to know is natural to good men.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its
creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time
to travel.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee
. . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field,
but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising
itself results which are not caused by your experiments
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid
multitude.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For
if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt
you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that
if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and
the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his
intelligence he is just using his memory
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study
without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
No member needs so great a number of muscles as the tongue; this exceeds all
the rest in the number of its movements
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary
for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to
proceed to investigate the reason.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things,
and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will
come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look
upon the murder of men
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is
fixed to a star does not change his mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
----
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to
return.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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RT @gadievron @beaker True life TCP confessions: "Forgive me father, for I have
SYN'd. It's been 230 ms since my last retransmission..."
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for
atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
    Orson Welles
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A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
    Jim Morrison
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<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as
*******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2
cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
    Seen at http://www.bash.org/?244321
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The guy who thought of that should be shot, hanged, guillotined and poisoned.
(you pick your order)
    Michael Van Canneyt, Seen at FPC-Devel malling list
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Finding the right Question is more valuable and rewarding than finding the
right Answer.
    Leif Ericsson Leo Veness
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
    Japanese Proverb
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of
it.
    Thomas Jefferson
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
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Dare to be Great
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
    Vince Lombardi
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live
the rest of your life as a champion.''
    Muhammad Ali
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The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
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Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the
end of their own arm.
    Sidney J. Phillips
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
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With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
    Thomas Foxwell Buxton
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
    African Proverb
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Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
----
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom
of the blind.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
    Winston Churchill
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Fortune sides with he who dares.
    Virgil
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is
expected of you, no matter what your task may be. This is a habit followed by
all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I say the surest
way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you
are paid.
    Og Mandino
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Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go
well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
    Robert Brault
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
    Heywood Hale Broun
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Courage is not the lack of fear.
It is acting in spite of it.
    Mark Twain
----
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every
day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making
a first effort.
    Sydney Smith
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
    John A. Shedd
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
    Sir Winston Churchill
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Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
    Donald Kendall
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
    Aristotle
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by
others.
    Mark Twain
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
    Margaret Mead
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I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
    George Burns
----
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
    Buddhist Proverb
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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome.
    Samuel Johnson
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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
    David Russell
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If not now, when? If not us, who?
    George Romney
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Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues

1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling
conversation.
3. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business
have its time.
4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you
resolve.
5. Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste
nothing.
6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all
unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you
speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are
your duty.
9. Moderation. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think
they deserve.
10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
11. Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or
unavoidable.
12. Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness,
weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
    Robert Bloch
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There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
    Melanie Griffith
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you
don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
    Mark Twain
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Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the
wrong button you'll be disconnected!
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There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
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Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
    Buddha
----
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
    Buddha
----
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything.
What we think we become.
    Buddha
----
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
    Buddha
----
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become
of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
    Buddha
----
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must
walk the path.
    Buddha
----
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and
laugh at the sky
    Buddha
----
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present
thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
    Buddha
----
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
    Frank Zappa
----
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
    Frank Zappa
----
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove
anything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
----
Change of Cast. - As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its
opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
    Nietzsche Quotes - Human, all too Human, s.118
----
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like
'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
    Jay Leno
----
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have
changed the history of music... and of aviation.
    Tom Stoppard
----
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
    Patty Hansen
----
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
    Mae West (1892 - 1980)
----
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
    Craig Newmark
----
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of
using it.
    Gordon R. Dickson
----
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.
    Nathalia Crane
----
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to
investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM
should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
    Wilhelm Reich
----
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working
for you.
    Will Rogers
----
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
    Traditional rhyme for Guy Fawkes Night.
----
I don't think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has
always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won't even accept
these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they
don't even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.
    James Jones
----
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
    Albert Camus
----
The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself
inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes
    Peter Weiss
----
To love another is something like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
    Anne Sexton
----
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who
were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they
are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without
question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
    "Mr. Wednesday" in American Gods by Neil Gaiman
----
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only
end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
----
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the
old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long
suppressed, finds utterance.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
----
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.
    Marianne Moore
----
We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or
permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is
neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's
population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent
of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and
that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
    John F. Kennedy
----
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he
is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of
his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear.
It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It
would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to
kill him.
    Voltaire
----
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
    William Blake
----
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
    C. S. Lewis
----
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one
teaches a student how to learn it.
    Jacques Barzun
----
If you give a good idea to a mediocre team they will screw it up; if you give a
mediocre idea to a great team they will either fix it or throw it away and come
up with something that works
    Ed Catmull, Pixar
----
I do not suffer from Misanthropy, I suffer from the human race
----
I dream of a better tomorrow... where chickens can cross roads and not have
their motives questioned
----
I'm never wrong. I once thought I was wrong, turns out, I was mistaken.
----
No one will win the battle of the sexes, there is too much flirting with the
enemy
    Henry Kissinger
----
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
    W. C. Fields
----
Last night I was looking at the stars and I wondered... where the hell's my
ceiling!
----
I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that
far up your a**.
----
i'm one of those people that laughs at a joke 3 TIMES:
>>ONCE when it's told to me
>>ONCE when it's explained to me
>>and
>>ONCE 5 minutes later when i finally understand it
----
Whoever said nothing was impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
----
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the fire department
generally uses water.
----
What happens if you get scared half to death twice???
----
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
Never play leap frog with a unicorn
----
Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely.
----
When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave the world wondering how
the hell you did it.
----
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing
----
A day without sunshine is like, night.
----
A rule of grammar: double negatives are a no-no
----
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something
----
If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher
----
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job
----
Don't tell me the sky is the limit when we've put footprints on the moo
----
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly, usually for the same
reason.
----
Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
----
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
----
I tried to put my head together but now my body is falling apart!!
----
A penny saved is a government oversight
----
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body
and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.
----
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
----
If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
----
The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in
trouble
----
Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words 'The' and 'IRS' together it
spells 'Theirs.'
----
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called
witchcraft. Today, it's called golf.
----
I say no to alcohol, it just doesn't listen.
----
Work is fine if it doesn't take too much of your time
----
Born free, taxed to death
----
Whether you think you can or can't, you're right
    Henry Ford
----
Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film
----
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking
----
The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it
----
In a country of free speech, why are there phone bills?
----
The cigarette does the smoking you are just the sucker.
----
Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock
----
To err is human, to forgive is not a Company policy
----
The road to success..... Is always under construction
----
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does milk
----
In order to get a loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it
----
All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or
married to someone else
----
Silence is golden... duck tape is silver
----
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a
son who thinks he's wrong
----
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike
and asked for forgiveness.
----
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police
----
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship
----
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list
----
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until
you hear them speak
----
If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong
----
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public
----
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit
salad
----
Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and
talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up
----
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd
better have a good hand
    Mae West
----
Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell
you why it isn't
----
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research
----
If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?
----
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments
----
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box
to start a campfire?
----
Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity,
they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
----
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks
----
I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian
----
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing
----
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you
----
I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it...so I said "Implants?"
----
Good girls are bad girls that never get caught
----
Some people say "If you can't beat them, join them". I say "If you can't beat
them, beat them", because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will
have the element of surprise
----
The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
----
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls
live
----
Laugh at your problems, everybody else does
----
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back
----
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you
will look forward to the trip
----
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish
they were
----
When in doubt, mumble
----
Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen
----
Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off
----
Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole
----
I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours
----
I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After
all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch
----
I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a
shot of tequila.
----
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat
----
There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get
away
----
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure
----
You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there
was only one life jacket... I'd miss you heaps and think of you often
----
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop
the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?"
I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
----
Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil
----
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
----
A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist
----
Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no
imagination whatsoever
----
A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer
----
If winning isn't everything why do they keep score?
----
Virginity is like a soapbubble, one prick and it is gone
----
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!
----
A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you
are in it
----
Hallmark Card: "I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're still
here."
----
If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more
than one child
----
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
----
Top 20 Replies by programmers when their program do not work:

20. That's weird ...
19. It's never done that before ...
18. It worked yesterday
17. How is it possible ?
16. It must be a hardware problem
15. What did you type it wrong to make it crash ?
14. There is something funky in your data
13. I haven't touched this module in weeks !
12. You must have the wrong version
11. It's just unlucky coincidence
10. I can't test everything
9. THIS can't be the source of THAT
8. It works, but it haven't been tested
7. Somebody must have changed my code
6. Did you check for a virus in your system ?
5. Even though it does not work, how does it feel ?
4. You can't use that version on your system
3. Why do you want to do it that way ?
2. Where were you when the program blow up ?
1. It works on my machine
----
I do not have an off by one bugs, i'm just ahead of the buffer ...
    ik5
----
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword
    Eddard Stark - Game of thrones
----
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can
have some conversation.
    Judith Martin
----
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants
and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native
soil of manhood and self-reliance.
    John Neal
----
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't
screw around, and don't smoke.
    Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
----
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in
and out with the tide.
    Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
----
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of
your love.
    Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
----
Laughter is an instant vacation.
    Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)
----
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
    Dutch Proverb
----
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
    Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
----
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
    Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
----
Life is like Stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink
    Suzuki Roshi, Zen master
----
May you live in interesting times, and attract the attention of important
people.
----
Some would sooner die than think.  In fact, they often do.
    Bertrand Russell
----
And life itself confided this secret to me:  'Behold, it said, 'I am that which
must always overcome itself.  Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a
drive to an end, to something higher, farther, more manifold....
    Thus Spake Zarathustra II 12
----
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.
    Aristotle
----
Whenever you point your finger at someone, you have *3* pointed at yourself.
    Hindu proverb
----
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
    Benjamin Mays
----
Think universally, Act Selfishly
----
I have opinions of my own--strong opinions--but I don't always agree with them.
    George Bush I
----
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the
expense of everyone else.
    Frederic Bastiat
----
Anarchy means having to put up with things that really piss you off.
----
psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in
politicians that have never taken them
    Dr. Timothy Leary
----
There is no better argument against democracy than a five-minute conversation
the common man
    Winston Churchill
----
I said a lot of stupid things when I was with the Conservative Party, and I
left them, because I did not want to go on saying stupid things.
    Winston Churchill
----
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent
many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    G. B. Shaw
----
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.
    Ronald Reagan
----
If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that man's
head.
    Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing President George Bush's policies
----
There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.
    Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
----
Laws... so widely disobeyed and which cannot be enforced only promote
disrespect for the law in general.
    New Jersey Assemblyman Mikulak, regarding the 55 MPH limit
----
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly,' meaning 'many,' and the
word 'ticks,' meaning 'blood sucking parasites.'
    Dave Barry
----
Power which can be abused, will be abused.
    Jim Warner
----
The Pen is mightier than the Sword.
The Court is mightier than the Pen.
The Sword is mightier than the Court.
    Rey Barry
----
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be
governed by men worse than themselves...
    Plato
----
He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is
something, therefore we must do it.
    Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister"
----
Outlawing drugs in order to solve drug problems is much like outlawing sex...
to win the war against AIDS.
    Ronald Siegel, "Intoxication"
----
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
    Derek Bok, president of Harvard
----
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem
it necessary?
    Marion Barry
----
A billion dollars here and a billion dollars there soon added up to real money.
    Senator Everett Dirksen
----
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the
question of whether a submarine can swim.
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
----
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance
    Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future
----
We cannot predict where, ultimately, the Computer Revolution will take us. All
we know for certain is that, when we finally get there, we won't have enough
RAM.
    Dave Barry
----
I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
    Bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
----
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.
    F. H. Westheimer
----
Computers are useless. All they can do is give you answers.
    Pablo Picasso
----
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the
machine

 * didn't work,
 * didn't do what the expensive advertisement said,
 * electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood,  and in fact failed entirely to be
    nside the expensive box when you opened it,

this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or
responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself
lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt
to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would
result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin
watches.

    Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
----
Do not go gentle into that long, dark night but rage, rage against the dying of
the light.
    Dylan Thomas
----
Zero defects:
    The result of shutting down a production line.
    Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"
----
There are bugs and then there are bugs. And then there are bugs.
    Karl Lehenbauer
----
A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who
doesn't know any women.
    Mark Russell
----
We're going to have tentacles into the PC-buying community that are going to
get us closer and closer to the right answers.
    Andrew Grove, Intel's CEO speaking on the Pentium math errors
----
Each time you toss out a "singing" greeting card, you are disposing of more
computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.
    Paul Saffo, futurist
----
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come
out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that
could provoke such a question.
    Charles Babbage
----
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to
identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have
words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have
traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is
nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of
unjustified religious beliefs.
    Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
----
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss
of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this
world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
    Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
----
Theology is ignorance with wings
    Sam Harris
----
I have no special talent, I'm only passionatley courious.
    Albert Einstein
----
One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them.
One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them.
In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
    The Silicon Valley Tarot, Henrique Holschuh
----
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you
do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will
understand why I dismiss yours
    Stephen Roberts
----
If the consumer price data confirm an acceleration in inflation then there's a
real risk the bank could tighten as soon as November
    Stephen Roberts
----
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
    Oscar Wilde
----
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
----
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
    Will Rogers
----
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
----
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
    Mae West
----
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife
asks for nothing.
    Joey Adams
----
Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law
on the planet.
    Mark Twain
----
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
    Mark Twain
----
Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
    Ambrose Bierce
----
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love - that's not
so bad either.
    Mae West
----
I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.
    Bob Hope
----
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for
going backwards.
    Aldous Huxley
----
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never
forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
    Barbara Bush
----
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
    Thomas Alva Edison
----
And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape
from Death.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
----
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
    Rita Mae Brown
----
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
    John F. Kennedy
----
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable
business.
    John Steinbeck
----
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
    Will Rogers
----
Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do
what it says on the aspirin
bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children"
----
If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the
impersonators would be dead.
    Johnny Carson
----
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
    Robin Williams
----
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to
put it out.
    Dolly Parton
----
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
    Tiger Woods
----
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we
speak.
    Epictetus
----
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
    Jeff Daly
----
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either
----
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely
fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
----
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as
the woman who marries a man to reform him.
    Elbert Hubbard
----
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
----
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be
married too.
    Henry Louis Mencken
----
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you
get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
    Socrates
----
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as
getting married just because you do.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
----
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total
strangers
----
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's
character before marriage, which is never advisable.
    Oscar Wilde
----
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage
would have been wrecked.
    Winston Churchill
----
Never take a wife until you have a house (and a fire) to put her in.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.
    Bill Bryson, "Down Under"
----
[a grizzly] can tear through a tree like a Jewish mother through self-esteem.
    The Simpsons
----
"NULLUS ANXIETAS" - Motto of the EcksEcksEcksEcks University,
    Terry Pratchett, "The Last Continent"
----
(God) is my favourite fictional character.
    Homer Simpson
----
I was being prosecuted for my beliefs.... I believed people wouldn't notice I'd
sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.
    Khuft, Terry Pratchett, "Pyramids"
----
...plasma or LCD television panels large enough to deserve their own postcode...
----
Please don't eat me, I have wife and kids - eat them!
    Homer Simpson
----
Don't blame me, *I* voted for Kodos
    Homer Simpson
----
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
    Fred Allen
----
Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.
Why a man would want two wives is a bigamystery.
----
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
    Bill Watterson
----
Judge: "Are you trying to show contempt for this court, Mr Smith?"
F. E. Smith: "No, My Lord. I am attempting to conceal it."
----
Promises are like babies: fun to make, but hell to deliver.
    Nadav Har'El
----
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
    Henry Cate
----
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
    Joey Adams
----
DNA - National Dyslexic Association
----
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
    Otto von Bismarck
----
If you advertise you framework as "even an idiot can make a page in 30 minutes"
you will end up with a lot of idiots writing pages in 30 minutes...
    levhita - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228#issuecomment-4374607
----
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to
you by your children.
    Native American
----
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost .... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend that I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in this same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit ... but, my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street
    By Portia Nelson
----
I see a glass and a liquid, and I choose how to look at it, and use it
----
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming
things and off-by-one errors.
    Cody Brocious, seen at https://twitter.com/#!/daeken/status/181865909865029632
----
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
    Dr. Seuss
----
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer
than You.
    Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
----
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
----
A person's a person, no matter how small.
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
----
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get
better. It's not.
    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
----
Being crazy isn't enough.
    Dr. Seuss
----
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and
some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my
troubles are going to have troubles with me!
    Dr. Seuss
----
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
    Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
----
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can
think up if only you try!
    Dr. Seuss
----
If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and
you'll start happening too.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred
percent!
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
----
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
----
How did it get so late so soon?
    Dr. Seuss
----
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
    Dr. Seuss
----
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
    Dr. Seuss
----
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that
life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98
and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
----
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
    Dr. Seuss
----
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax
----
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
    Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks
----
Only you can control your future.
    Dr. Seuss
----
You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
----
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think
progress progresses too fast!
    Dr. Seuss
----
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by
yourself, sitting alone in a room.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like
we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were
gone.
    Dr. Seuss
----
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
----
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It
came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and
puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he
hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What
if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
----
Think and wonder, wonder and think.
    Dr. Seuss
----
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have
no tongues.
    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
----
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.
    Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (Deluxe Edition)
----
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone
whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual
weirdness and call it love
    Dr. Seuss
----
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
    Robert J. Hanlon
----
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead
from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself
    David Herbert Lawrence
----
Only when you understand that you were wrong, and asked the wrong question for
the search, you can correct yourself and look for the proper answer
    IK
----
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I
repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
----
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
    Mark Twain
----
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
    Winston Churchill
----
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
    Winston Churchill
----
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
    Winston Churchill
----
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right
answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past.
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
    John F. Kennedy
----
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive
the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move
forward.
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
----
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore.
It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is
yourself.
    Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
----
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright,
their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to
feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was
wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where
you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
    Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
----
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for
what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize
that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
----
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate
him/her.
Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart;
if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
    C. JoyBell C.
----
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what
you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
----
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of
those memories.
    Haruki Murakami
----
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that
they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
    C. JoyBell C.
----
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn
from our errors and move on.
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
----
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
----
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your
history, but not a part of your destiny.
    Steve Maraboli
----
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you
will have a lot of peace.
    Ajahn Chah
----
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.
    Philip K. Dick
----
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
----
I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly
----
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code
----
Passwords are like underwear: You shouldn't leave them out where people can
see them.
You should change them regularly.
And you shouldn't loan them out to strangers.
----
Concept: On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape button
----
My software never have bugs. It just develops random features
----
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you
    Seen on /.
----
Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken
----
You know you need a life when...
1. You spend every Friday night on the computer
2. You just finished watching all three seasons of "Star Trek"
3. You've attempted watching the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy extended
versions+ deleted scenes, etc.
4. You spend countless hours on youtube
5. You spend time reading things like this
6. You agree with any of the above...
    Dally D
----
That's a PEBKAC problem. (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
----
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for
ourselves,
the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
    William Godwin
----
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
    Zhou Enlai
----
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so
wonderful at all.
    Michelangelo
----
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain
unaltered.
    Aristotle
----
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is
in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
    Kenneth Grahame
----
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of
trying.
    Douglas Adams
----
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon
himself the woe of the people.
There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the
world.
    John Updike
----
I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it
be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt
something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death.
    Harry Houdini
----
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once
in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
    Rene Descartes
----
Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
    Hopi Proverb
----
Day and night cannot dwell together
    Duwamish
----
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
    Apache Proverb
----
All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we
can hear them.
    Arapaho Proverb
----
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll
understand
    Native American Proverb
----
Before eating, always take time to thank the food.
    Arapaho Proverb
----
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for
us.
    Arapaho Proverb
----
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
    Arapaho Proverb
----
Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
    Assiniboine
----
Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
    Blackfoot Proverb
----
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
    Hopi Proverb
----
We always return to our first loves
    Native American Proverb
----
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the
sunset.
    Blackfoot Proverb
----
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
    Cherokee Proverb
----
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to
fall into the river
    Tuscarora Proverb
----
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
    Cherokee Proverb
----
When the white man discovered this country, Indians were running it.
No taxes, no debt, women did all the work.
White man thought he could improve on a system like this.
    Cherokee Proverb
----
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and
man.
    Sioux
----
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
    Cheyenne
----
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
    Navajo
----
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
    Lakota
----
Our first teacher is our own heart.
    Cheyenne
----
Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
    Maricopa
----
All who have died are equal.
    Comanche
----
Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the
Creator.
    Mohawk
----
One rain does not make a crop.
    Creole
----
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit
remain always the same.
    Crow
----
What the people believe is true.
    Anishinabe
----
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
    Crow
----
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
    Duwamish
----
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
    Blackfoot
----
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
    Navajo
----
It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
    Anishinabe
----
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
    Hopi
----
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
    Cheyenne
----
All dreams spin out from the same web.
    Hopi
----
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
    Seneca
----
Even a small mouse has anger.
    Native American
----
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
    Cheyenne
----
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
    Hopi
----
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
    Kiowa
----
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
    Lakota
----
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
    Crow
----
Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
    Lakota
----
Everything the power does, it does in a circle.
    Lakota
----
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
    Native American
----
A man or woman with many children has many homes.
    Lakota and Sioux
----
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
    Lumbee
----
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
    Minquass
----
A good chief gives, he does not take.
    Mohawk
----
Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.
    Navajo
----
Listening to a liar is like drinking warm water
    Native American
----
Every animal knows more than you do.
    Nez Perce
----
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
    Oglala Sioux
----
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
    Oklahoma
----
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
    Oklahoma
----
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
    Cheyenne
----
The coward shoots with shut eyes.
    Oklahoma
----
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
    Omaha
----
The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.
    Omaha
----
Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
    Omaha
----
A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
    Paiute
----
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
    Pima
----
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
    Plains
----
Cherish youth, but trust old age.
    Pueblo
----
Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
    Sauk
----
We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
    Shawnee
----
Each person is his own judge.
    Shawnee
----
We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
    Shenandoah
----
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and
live in peace.
    Shenandoah
----
There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.
    Sioux
----
A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax.
    Navajo
----
With all things and in all things, we are relatives.
    Sioux
----
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
    Hopi
----
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
    Sioux
----
The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
    Southwest
----
Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your
Brothers and Sisters.
    Native American
----
White men have too many chiefs.
    Nez Perce
----
If a man is to do something more than human, he must have more than human
powers.
    Native American
----
The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears.
    Native American
----
Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the
Creator intended for you.
    Hopi
----
Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass
    Native American
----
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
    Arapaho
----
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.
    Native American
----
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
    Cherokee
----
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
    Native American
----
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
    Native American
----
Man has responsibility, not power.
    Tuscarora
----
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
    Hopi
----
Each bird loves to hear itself sing.
    Arapaho
----
The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
    Umpqua
----
God gives us each a song.
    Ute
----
A man must make his own arrows.
    Winnebago
----
After dark all cats are leopards.
    Zuni
----
When you die, you will be spoken of as those in the sky, like the stars.
    Yurok
----
It takes many nails to build crib, but only one screw to fill it.
    Chinese Proverb
----
People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do
----
    To speak before you think is like wiping your ass before you shit
----
Everyone likes a little ass, but no one likes a smart ass.
    Mr. Jack Tinner
----
Hey man, I may not go down in history, but I'll go down on your daughter.
    Ryan Macdonald
----
Q: What do you call a gay dinosaur?
A: A "megasoreass"
----
Why do we call something sent by car a "shipment" and something sent by ship a
"cargo?
----
If our food and drink don't meet your standards, please lower your standards
    Chewy's Restaurant Wall
----
Pretend you're smart: use quotes.
----
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an
idiot.
    Steven Wright
----
It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they run the Bureau of
Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.
    Scott Adams
----
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the
wrong answers.
    A Bit of Fry and Laurie
----
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the
unnecessary.
    Mark Twain
----
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate
plants.
    A. Whitney Brown
----
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.
    William James
----
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
("When cryptography is outlawedonly outlaws will have privacy")
----
You don't buy the drink here, you only rent it
    Restroom Graffiti
----
X-rated movies are all alike... the only thing they leave to the imagination is
the plot.
----
All racists who are prepared to die for their country, please do that now.
----
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else
----
Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.
----
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in
this world to live up to mine.
    Bruce Lee
----
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
    Bruce Lee
----
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be
like water.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a
cup,
it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle;
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.
    Bruce Lee
----
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
    Bruce Lee
----
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older,
our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Bruce Lee
----
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to
the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a
cup,
it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle.
You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can
crash.
Be water, my friend.
    Bruce Lee
----
Be happy, but never satisfied.
    Bruce Lee
----
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
    Bruce Lee
----
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older,
our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Bruce Lee
----
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your
own.
    Bruce Lee
----
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a
wise answer.
    Bruce Lee
----
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who
had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
    Bruce Lee
----
The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.
    Bruce Lee
----
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else,
it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.
There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
    Bruce Lee
----
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
    Bruce Lee
----
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
    Bruce Lee
----
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
    Bruce Lee
----
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something
to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
----
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
    Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
----
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
    Bruce Lee
----
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
    Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
----
Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may
come.
    Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
----
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
    Bruce Lee
----
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not
to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its
course,
and your tools will strike at the right moment.
    Bruce Lee
----
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
    Bruce Lee
----
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind.
    Bruce Lee
----
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
    Bruce Lee
----
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent
graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and
you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life!
Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!
    Bruce Lee
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If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you
depend on God for your inner theme.
    Bruce Lee
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A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
    Bruce Lee
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it
thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is
our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
    Bruce Lee
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Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within
the soul.
    Bruce Lee
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Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in
the joy of forever developing.
    Bruce Lee
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know
yourself takes a lifetime.
    Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to
kick.
    Bruce Lee
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Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot
    Bruce Lee
----
Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.
    Bruce Lee
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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
    Bruce Lee
----
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and
look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
    Bruce Lee
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The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
    Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
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As you think, so shall you become.
    Bruce Lee
----
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and
conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
    Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
    Bruce Lee
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You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it
becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When
you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can
crash.
Become like water my friend.
    Bruce Lee
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in
action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and
self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to
be is to be related.
    Bruce Lee
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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be
like water.
    Bruce Lee
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Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
    Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is
stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
    Bruce Lee
----
Boards don't hit back.
    Bruce Lee
----
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be
like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very
important. Most people live only for their image
    Bruce Lee
----
Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than
you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less
than
his/her student.
    Bruce Lee
----
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and
growth.
To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest
development of one's potential.
    Bruce Lee
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Don't blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe.
Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. Good Luck.
    Dr Who
----
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,
but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a
big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
    Dr Who
----
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and
the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song.
Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the
tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
    Dr Who
----
TDBD - Test Driven Bugs Development
    Meir Kriheli
----
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy.
    James Madison
----
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
    James Madison
----
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of
other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
    James Madison
----
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations.
    James Madison
----
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their
own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so
incoherent that they cannot be understood.
    James Madison
----
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
    James Madison
----
Do not separate text from historical background.
If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution,
which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
    James Madison
----
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess
over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid
to trust the people with arms.
    James Madison
----
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these
shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for
centuries.
    James Madison
----
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms,
is the best most natural defense of a free country.
    James Madison
----
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No
man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
    James Madison
----
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
    James Madison
----
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
    James Madison
----
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has
done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater
purity, the less they are mixed together.
    James Madison
----
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That
part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in
population, agriculture and the arts.
    James Madison
----
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the
instruments of tyranny at home.
    James Madison
----
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it,
is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
    James Madison
----
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the
living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances
made by the former.
    James Madison
----
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
    James Madison
----
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
    James Madison
----
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently
respect the rights of the minority.
    James Madison
----
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
    James Madison
----
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger,
real or imagined, from abroad.
    James Madison
----
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to
the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
    James Madison
----
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of
power.
    James Madison
----
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
    James Madison
----
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of
carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
    James Madison
----
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the
people.
    James Madison
----
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which
his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
    James Madison
----
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment,
may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
    James Madison
----
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle;
their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
    James Madison
----
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
    James Madison
----
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild
season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
    James Madison
----
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be
doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of
erudition, and of science.
    James Madison
----
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that
the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold
their power, is derived.
    James Madison
----
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and
which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the
interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
    James Madison
----
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must
first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place
oblige it to control itself.
    James Madison
----
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded,
because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
    James Madison
----
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and
treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to
reap its fruits.
    James Madison
----
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate
whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision
of Property.
    James Madison
----
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human
hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
    James Madison
----
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to
have a property in his rights.
    James Madison
----
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride,
luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and
revolt.
    James Madison
----
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
    James Madison
----
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to
exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
    James Madison
----
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property
originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
----
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there
is or is not cause for declaring war.
    James Madison
----
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without
any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
    James Madison
----
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern
men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
    James Madison
----
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who
assemble and administer the government in person.
    James Madison
----
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our
political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of
the United States.
    James Madison
----
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
    James Madison
----
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
    James Madison
----
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the
political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done,
almost everywhere.
    James Madison
----
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be
charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
    James Madison
----
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
    James Madison
----
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce
when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be
executed?
    James Madison
----
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate
on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its
wiser neighbors.
    James Madison
----
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every
noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
    James Madison
----
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
    James Madison
----
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to
property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
    James Madison
----
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the
protection of which Government was instituted.
    James Madison
----
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
    James Madison
----
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the
amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
    James Madison
----
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital
punishment.
    James Madison
----
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they
ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate
their reason.
    James Madison
----
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They
throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty
and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
    James Madison
----
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
    James Madison
----
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty
itself.
    James Madison
----
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion
of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the
church from the state.
    James Madison
----
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for
all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and
oppression.
    James Madison
----
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped
from the progress of reason.
    James Madison
----
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty
and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
    James Madison
----
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us
a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like
to have reasons for what they do.
    Robert B. Cialdini
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Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to
make some copies?
The result was that once again nearly all (93 percent) agreed, even though no
real reason,
no new information, was added to justify their compliance. Just as the
"cheep-cheep”
sound of turkey chicks triggered an automatic mothering response from maternal
turkeys—even when it emanated from a stuffed polecat—so, too, did the word
"because” trigger an automatic compliance response
    Robert B. Cialdini
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Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.
    Robert B. Cialdini
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The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise,
were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying:
"expensive = good".
    Robert B. Cialdini
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The automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great
majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks
make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to
respond maternally to that single "cheep-cheep” noise.
    Robert B. Cialdini
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A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us
a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like
to have reasons for what they do
    Robert B. Cialdini
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
    Seneca
----
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done
at all.
    Peter Drucker
----
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working
    Pablo Picasso
----
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less
than his share of the credit
    Arnold H. Glasow
----
You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
    Barack Obama, Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value.
    Albert Einstein
----
A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky
and never know it
    Jim Jones
----
Those who don't give a fuck change the world. The rest do not
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy
would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take
things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
    Carl Jung
----
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first
examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in
ourselves.
    Carl Jung
----
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or
morphine or idealism.
    Carl Jung
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a
reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I
don't need to believe it.
    Carl Jung
----
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface
of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of
tune.
    Carl Jung
----
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude
to
those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw
material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul
of the child.
    Carl Jung
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
    Carl Jung
----
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it
oppresses.
    Carl Jung
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful
woman is a terrible disappointment.
    Carl Jung
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
    Carl Jung
----
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there
love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
    Carl Jung
----
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who
looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
    Carl Jung
----
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of
other people.
    Carl Jung
----
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
    Carl Jung
----
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a
light in the darkness of mere being.
    Carl Jung
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
    Carl Jung
----
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn
into torturers.
    Carl Jung
----
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome
them.
    Carl Jung
----
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
    Carl Jung
----
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living
that suits all cases.
    Carl Jung
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
    Carl Jung
----
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Jung
----
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
    Carl Jung
----
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between
right and wrong.
    Carl Jung
----
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who
promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his
promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
    Carl Jung
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we
then to depreciate imagination.
    Carl Jung
----
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills
without being overcome by them.
    Carl Jung
----
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in
vain.
    Carl Jung
----
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of
things without it.
    Carl Jung
----
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
    Carl Jung
----
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well
organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
    Carl Jung
----
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
    Carl Jung
----
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
    Carl Jung
----
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and
calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their
conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
    Carl Jung
----
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally
insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
    Carl Jung
----
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can
cope with a comprehensible darkness.
    Carl Jung
----
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
    Carl Jung
----
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in
our very blood?
    Carl Jung
----
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
    Carl Jung
----
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The
judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
    Carl Jung
----
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own
wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
    Carl Jung
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine,
we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Jung
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without
trouble.
    Carl Jung
----
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
    Carl Jung
----
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the
play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the
objects it loves.
    Carl Jung
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the
tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped
off.
    Carl Jung
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the
unconscious.
    Carl Jung
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
    Carl Jung
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
    Carl Jung
----
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
    Carl Jung
----
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but
the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of
Christianity.
    Carl Jung
----
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human
qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not
have been better.
    Carl Jung
----
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
    Carl Jung
----
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows
turbid.
    Carl Jung
----
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known,
though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
    Carl Jung
----
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the
second half of life of its purpose.
    Carl Jung
----
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know
what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is
not.
    Carl Jung
----
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand
ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
    Carl Jung
----
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with
the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
    Carl Jung
----
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life
- that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last
resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
    Carl Jung
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
    Louise L. Hay
----
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life
becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
    Louise L. Hay
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No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only
thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds,
we will find it in our lives.
    Louise L. Hay
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own
childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears
and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were
just as frightened and scared as you are.
    Louise L. Hay
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We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the
particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work
on in this lifetime.
    Louise L. Hay
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I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as
we are, then everything in life works.
    Louise L. Hay
----
Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete...
and so are you.
    Louise L. Hay
----
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am
choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are
personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the
Totality of Possibilities.
    Louise L. Hay
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All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been
created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were
created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month,
last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.
    Louise L. Hay
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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
    Louise L. Hay
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The point of power is always in the present moment.
    Louise L. Hay
----
If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is
what I will find in my world.
    Louise L. Hay
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If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.
    Louise L. Hay
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'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
    Louise L. Hay
----
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in
time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that
will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
    Louise L. Hay
----
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through
life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and
notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
    Louise L. Hay
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Every thought we think is creating our future.
    Louise L. Hay
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If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how
to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love
yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as
children.
    Louise L. Hay
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It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.
    Louise L. Hay
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Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the
old to the new, easily and peacefully.
    Louise L. Hay
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It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is
suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more
self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and
guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.
    Louise L. Hay
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I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.
    Louise L. Hay
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You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so
often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our
minds…Claim and consciously use your power.
    Louise L. Hay
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I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates.
It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them
important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to
Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good
Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can
you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been
taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?
    Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
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No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to
be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances
    Louise L. Hay
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I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in
life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
    Louise L. Hay
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I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment,
grace, and purpose will guide me
    Louise L. Hay
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When we expand our thinking and beliefs our love flows freely. When we contract
we shut ourselves off. Can you remember the last time when you were in love?
Your heart went ahhh!! It was such a wonderful feeling. It is the same with
loving yourself except that you will never leave once you have your love for
yourself.Its with you for the rest of your life, so you want to make it the best
relationship that you can have
    Louise L. Hay
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I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the
more goodies you get
    Louise L. Hay
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I say "Out" to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place,
or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create
my own reality and everyone in it.
    Louise L. Hay
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In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin
to see myself
As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.
    Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
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Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being
expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.
    Louise L. Hay
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You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving
of yourself and see what happens.
    Louise L. Hay
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I change my life when I change my thinking.
I am Light. I am Spirit.
I am a wonderful, capable being.
And it is time for me to acknowledge
that I create my own reality with my thoughts.
If I want to change my reality,
then it is time for me to change my mind.
    Louise L. Hay
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Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.
    Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
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The mental thought patterns that cause the most dis-ease in the body are
CRITICISM, ANGER, RESENTMENT and GUILT. For instance, criticism indulged in long
enought will often lead to dis-eases such as arthritis. Anger turns into things
that boil and burn and infect the body. Resentment long held festers and eats
away at the self and ultimately can lead to tumors and cancer. Guilt always
seeks punishment and leads to pain.
    Louise L. Hay, The Golden Louise L. Hay Collection
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Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they
mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how
long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The
Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment
    Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
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The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our
lives
    Louise L. Hay
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No matter where you are in life, no matter what you've contributed to
creating,
no matter what's happening, you are always doing the best you can with the
understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have
    Louise L. Hay
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Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you
have it!
    Louise L. Hay
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Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on
the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.
    Louise L. Hay
----
We want to know what is going on inside us, so we can know what to let go.
Instead of hiding our pain, we can release it totally.
    Louise L. Hay
----
Chronic patterns of self-hate, guilt, and self-criticism raise the body's
stress
levels and weaken the immune system
    Louise L. Hay
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A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways from
which we can grow
    Louise L. Hay
----
We are far more than our bodies and personalities. The inner spirit is always
beautiful and lovable, no matter how our outer appearances may change
    Louise L. Hay
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When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders,
but the doorway to your own self-love opens
    Louise L. Hay
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If you can't get close to other people, it is because you don't know how to
be
close to your own inner child. The child in you is scared and hurting. Be there
for your child
    Louise L. Hay
----
All the theories in the world are useless unless there is action, positive
change, and finally, healing
    Louise L. Hay
----
When we get frightened, we want to control everything, and then we shut off the
flow of our good. Trust life. Everything we need is here for us
    Louise L. Hay
----
When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand
    Louise L. Hay
----
Each one of us is totally linked with the Universe and with all of life. The
Power is within us to expand the horizons of our consciousness
    Louise L. Hay
----
The planet is becoming conscious as a whole. It is becoming self-conscious
    Louise L. Hay
----
Some people would rather leave the planet than change
    Louise L. Hay
----
We can destroy the planet or heal it. Send some loving, healing energy to the
planet every day. What we do with our minds makes a difference
    Louise L. Hay
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something
fundamental is actually being taken from them.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical
music and opera.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect
expression of any emotion.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I was an elementary school teacher.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight
against myself, not against the other.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I am a very superstitious person.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I am open to everything.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I want to be famous everywhere.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of
wonderful opera.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done,
even if it's good.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and
appreciated by everyone.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
People have a right to criticize.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the
past, none of them are.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high
fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are
different things.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop
whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a
great difference.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my
life
    Luciano Pavarotti
----
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the
beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and
in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
    Winston Churchill
----
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made
more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
    Albert Einstein
----
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive
affirmation of peace.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
cord would suffice.
    Albert Einstein
----
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle
which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
    Thomas Jefferson
----
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in
the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
----
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one
path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
    John F. Kennedy
----
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a
bodyguard of lies.
    Winston Churchill
----
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the
other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
    George S. Patton
----
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and
brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and
unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
    Douglas MacArthur
----
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of
sheep led by a lion.
    Alexander the Great
----
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
    Winston Churchill
----
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the
same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
----
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must
suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douglas MacArthur
----
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
----
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a
crime.
    Ernest Hemingway
----
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to
war first and then seek to win.
    Sun Tzu
----
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect.
    Chief Seattle
----
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
    Chief Seattle
----
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among
the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the
invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just
and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
    Chief Seattle
----
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die
of a great loneliness of the spirit.
    Chief Seattle
----
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
    Chief Seattle
----
Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
    Chief Seattle
----
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea.
It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
    Chief Seattle
----
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary
wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their
hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old
men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
    Chief Seattle
----
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives,
but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to
lose, know better.
    Chief Seattle
----
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he
does to the web, he does to himself.
    Chief Seattle
----
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how
can you buy them?
    Chief Seattle
----
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men,
given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions
of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
    Chief Seattle
----
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of
the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
    Chief Seattle
----
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as
much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
    Chief Seattle
----
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return.
The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
    Chief Seattle
----
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is
hallowed ground.
    Chief Seattle
----
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
    Chief Seattle
----
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
    Og Mandino
----
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
    Robert H. Schuller
----
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
----
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
    Norman Vincent Peale
----
Step by step and the thing is done.
    Charles Atlas
----
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
    Arthur Ashe
----
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat
others.
    Ayn Rand
----
If you can dream it, you can do it.
    Walt Disney
----
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...
these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
    Confucius
----
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
----
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than
anyone else.
    Albert Einstein
----
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
----
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
    Sam Levenson
----
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
    Alfred A. Montapert
----
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
    Victor Kiam
----
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence.
    Helen Keller
----
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by
achieving your goals.
    Henry David Thoreau
----
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and
define you.
    Thomas Jefferson
----
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have
to be better than you ever thought you could be.
    Ken Venturi
----
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
    Simone de Beauvoir
----
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
----
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen.
Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your
beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down
from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself,
right now, right down here on Earth.
    Bradley Whitford
----
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they
are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
    Lao Tzu
----
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you
want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
    Muhammad Ali
----
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your
frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with
what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
    Pope John XXIII
----
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls
forth your best.
    Epictetus
----
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone
else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
    Jim Rohn
----
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
----
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
----
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.
Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
    Miguel Angel Ruiz
----
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
    Carl von Clausewitz
----
If you're going through hell, keep going.
    Winston Churchill
----
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers,
the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault.
But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who
has got to change.
    Katharine Hepburn
----
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the
only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
    Denis Waitley
----
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
    Albert Schweitzer
----
Never, never, never give up.
    Winston Churchill
----
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the
world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the
errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
----
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals.
I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
    Mia Hamm
----
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything...
at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what
activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
    Dan Millman
----
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
    Aristotle
----
After a storm comes a calm.
    Matthew Henry
----
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
    William Butler Yeats
----
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
    Kyle Chandler
----
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
    John F. Kennedy
----
Don't give up. Dont lost hope. Deon't sell out.
    Christopher Reeve
----
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
    Samuel Beckett
----
One finds limits by pushing them.
    Herbert Simon
----
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
    Robert H. Schuller
----
Know or listen to those who know.
    Baltasar Gracian
----
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and
work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will
be found as you go along.
    George Herbert
----
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
    Jim Rohn
----
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
    Ralph Marston
----
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
    John W. Gardner
----
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel
the worn paths of accepted success.
    John D. Rockefeller
----
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the
second time.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
This is your moment. Own it.
    Oprah Winfrey
----
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
    Walter Elliot
----
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your
choice.
    Wayne Dyer
----
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
    Christopher Morley
----
There is always room at the top.
    Daniel Webster
----
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
    Ted Turner
----
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
    H. G. Wells
----
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
    Carol Burnett
----
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
    Jim Rohn
----
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
    Elbert Hubbard
----
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that
you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it.
Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
    Pauline Kael
----
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
    Bo Jackson
----
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
    Saint Teresa of Avila
----
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
    Napoleon Hill
----
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere.
Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain
a healthy lifestyle.
    Sasha Cohen
----
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
    Amelia Earhart
----
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
    Babe Ruth
----
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck,
take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
    Brian Tracy
----
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
    Muhammad Iqbal
----
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself.
    Mark Caine
----
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because
they want to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
----
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
    Mary Pickford
----
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the
want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we
are always doing.
    Thomas Jefferson
----
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
    Khalil Gibran
----
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
    Thomas Paine
----
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
    Henry Ford
----
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
    William James
----
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
    Henry Drummond
----
Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or
hold you up in any way.
    Eileen Caddy
----
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
    Philip Emeagwali
----
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts.
I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having
productive ideas to make others feel involved.
    Rupert Murdoch
----
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it.
Establish your priorities and go to work.
    H. L. Hunt
----
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
    Joan of Arc
----
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too.
Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to
it.
    Diane Sawyer
----
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
    Wayne Dyer
----
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
    Julie Andrews
----
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to
prepare.
    Bobby Knight
----
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine
to support himself and to succeed in life.
    Dean Koontz
----
Who seeks shall find.
    Sophocles
----
Never complain and never explain.
    Benjamin Disraeli
----
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
    Bill Cosby
----
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth.
I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something
Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will
find the way to get it out to the world.
    Judy Collins
----
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work
even harder.
    Natalie Gulbis
----
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the
mark set before you.
    George Whitefield
----
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose,
if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that
is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
----
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
    Michael Korda
----
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the
world at large.
    Confucius
----
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get
busy.
    Dale Carnegie
----
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
    Jim Rohn
----
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a
higher one.
    Jessica Savitch
----
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
    Baltasar Gracian
----
It's always too early to quit.
    Norman Vincent Peale
----
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
----
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
    Jimmy Dean
----
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
    Peter Marshall
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the
machine.
    Flip Wilson
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to
write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days.
The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this.
I never got past Page 3 of that book.
    James Rollins
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Never give in and never give up.
    Hubert H. Humphrey
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
    Allen Ginsberg
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If you think you can do it, you can.
    John Burroughs
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
    Orison Swett Marden
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You have to make it happen.
    Denis Diderot
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
    Golda Meir
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Always desire to learn something useful.
    Sophocles
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
    Leo Buscaglia
----
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear.
Rip them out and call them by name.
    Sylvia Browne
----
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
    Carl Sandburg
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Wherever you are - be all there.
    Jim Elliot
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Don't fight the problem, decide it.
    George C. Marshall
----
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
    Donna Brazile
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Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
    Eliza Dushku
----
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
    Jack London
----
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
    Shakti Gawain
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
    Richard Rorty
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A will finds a way.
    Orison Swett Marden
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I can, therefore I am.
    Simone Weil
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
    Albert Camus
----
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will
follow you by itself.
    Swami Sivananda
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Leap, and the net will appear.
    John Burroughs
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He conquers who endures.
    Aulus Persius Flaccus
----
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
    Baruch Spinoza
----
Deserve your dream.
    Octavio Paz
----
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to
live out loud.
    Emile Zola
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Only the educated are free.
    Epictetus
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
    Baruch Spinoza
----
The more we do, the more we can do.
    William Hazlitt
----
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
    Benjamin Jowett
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God always strives together with those who strive.
    Aeschylus
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
    Thomas Fuller
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
    William James
----
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
    Henry David Thoreau
----
If you've got a talent, protect it.
    Jim Carrey
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When one must, one can.
    Charlotte Whitton
----
You never know what motivates you.
    Cicely Tyson
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
    Norman Cousins
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
    John Donne
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To begin, begin.
    William Wordsworth
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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional
speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker.
Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do.
I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the
organizations I took over to want to succeed.
    Herman Cain
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I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know
while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for
my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young
girls too.
    Khloe Kardashian
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Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always
made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that
you want to see, then that's what you are.
    Keke Palmer
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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of
a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me.
That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life.
I totally fall in potholes.
    Drew Barrymore
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Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something,
you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years
very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
    Daniel H. Pink
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I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about
ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have
called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
    Andy Andrews
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I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do,
but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my
car. Music has definite functions for me.
    Peter Steele
----
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your
destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your
limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
    Louise Mensch
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Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
    Woody Hayes
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One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's
list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and
shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story
idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working
pretty well.
    Justin Zackham
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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people.
I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as
a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
    Dominique Dawes
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I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not
to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional
reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you
can represent it.
    Edward Norton
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery,
and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being
accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
    Emanuel Steward
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me,
I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
    Young Jeezy
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal,
relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes
knowledge within a community of believers.
    Amy Waldman
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and
just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of
life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
    J. R. Martinez
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any
other motivational speaker on the planet.
    Zig Ziglar
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People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing,
but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment,
with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
    Lenny Kravitz
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I'm a motivational speaker.
    Young Jeezy
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Courage is being scared to death, and saddling up anyway
    John Wayne
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been
    Wayne Gretzky
----
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
    Donald Trump
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If you build an Army of 100 Lions & their Leaders is a Dog, in any fight,the
Lions will die like a Dog, but if you build an Army of 100 & Dogs their Leaders
is a Lion, all Dogs will fight like a Lion
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of
sheep led by a lion.
    Alexander the Great
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies
in knowing when to be the one or the other.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand
me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.
    Will Smith
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you
could miss it.
    Ferris Bueller
----
Where you goin'? Nowhere. You're goin' nowhere!
    Boondock Saints
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You think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearing these
bad boys?
    Napoleon Dynamite
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May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
    Big Trouble in Little China
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Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
    Ghostbusters
----
I'm in a glass case of emotion!
    Anchorman
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I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.
    The Hangover
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Sometimes, the only choices you have are bad ones.
But you still have to choose.
    Doctor Who
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Old ladies die all the time.
It's practically their job description.
    Doctor Who
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Life's like a movie. Write your own ending.
    Kermit the Frog
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the
innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they
control the minds of the masses.
    Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or
anything. If you're a man, you take it.
    Malcolm X
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts
his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
    Malcolm X
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss,
contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the
next time.
    Malcolm X
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for
or against.
    Malcolm X
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the
American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
    Malcolm X
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
    Malcolm X
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who
prepare for it today.
    Malcolm X
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
    Malcolm X
----
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only
reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
    Malcolm X
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood
with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people
right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who
doesn't know how to return the treatment.
    Malcolm X
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
    Malcolm X
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases
from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world,
I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been
considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds
by the religion of Islam.
    Malcolm X
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he
has his freedom.
    Malcolm X
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
    Malcolm X
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white
man is on top already, the white man is the boss already...
He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to
the white man. We are working on our own people.
    Malcolm X
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's
wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
    Malcolm X
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
    Malcolm X
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open
    Frank Zappa
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People aren't against you; They are for themselves.
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Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy
the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world
can see you
    David McCullough Jr.
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You learn more from failure then from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure
builds character.
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The most dangerous risk of all - The risk of spending your life not doing what
you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
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Go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated.
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The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so
better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bating.
That's why we recommend it daily.
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Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost
something.
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Comfort is the enemy of achievement.
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You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.
    Stephen C. Hogan
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So
I did 10 times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it
with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree.
You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
    Henry Rollins
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Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes
out of you.Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy
that comes out of you.
    William James
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Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the
discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it
badly enough.
    Sophia Loren
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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success.
    Swami Sivananda
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If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will
pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy,
selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard
work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the
person we are today.
    Pope Paul VI
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from
the successful one is a lot of hard work.
    Stephen King
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
    J.G. Holland
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
    Edward H. Harriman
----
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt
sleeves.
    Garth Henrichs
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Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
    Marcus Washling
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If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
    Robert Brault
----
You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or
better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.
    Terri Guillemets
----
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
    Dutch proverb
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the
recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
    George Bernard Shaw
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Both liberty and among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many
centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of
the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent
existence of the weak and the less gifted. equality are.
    Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!
    Audrey Hepburn
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
    Maya Angelou
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence.
    Vince Lombardi
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Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
    Charles Swindoll
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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at
what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
    Oprah Winfrey
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Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always
reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
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I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not
trying.
    Michael Jordan
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it's holy ground. There's no
greater investment.
    Stephen Covey
----
In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous
decision.
    Peter F. Drucker
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We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any
weaknesses. It's not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its
right to persist.
    Vince McConnell
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the
willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their
time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
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My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: Forget about making mistakes, just do
it.
    Ajaero Tony Martins
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Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep
moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.
    Conrad Hilton
----
Ambition is the steam that drives men forward on the road to success. Only the
engine under full steam can make the grade.
    Maxi Foreman
----
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
    Dennis Waitley
----
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solved each problem as they
came to it. They helped themselves and they were helped through powers known and
unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going
regardless of the obstacles they met.
    W. Clement Stone
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how
good something sounds on paper. The second is that you are generally better off
sticking with what you know and the third is that sometimes, your best
investments are the ones you don't make.
    Donald Trump
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Failure isn't failure unless you don't learn from it.
    Dr. Ronald Niednagel
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Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your
hand and the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
    Henry Ford
----
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an
unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will
enable you to attain the success you seek.
    Mario Andretti
----
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to
do something well is to enjoy it.
    Pearl Buck
----
If you hear a voice within you saying 'you are not a painter' then by all means
paint and that voice will be silenced.
    Vincent Van Gogh
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You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not
settle for less. Sound daunting? That's just because it takes you out of your
comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth
and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well
within your control.
    Suze Orman
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives by
altering their attitudes.
    William James
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Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more
intelligently.
    Henry Ford
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The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize
something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
    Robert L. Schwartz
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
    Theodore Roosevelt
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
    Les Brown
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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from
safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
    Mark Twain
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26
times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed
over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
    Michael Jordan
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
    Albert Einstein
----
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
    Stephen Covey
----
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes
off against the wind, not with it.
    Henry Ford
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
any.
    Alice Walker (Hanlon's razor)
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
    Amelia Earhart
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
    Aristotle Onassis
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
    Steve Jobs
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
    Norman Vincent Peale
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
    Ayn Rand
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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
    Dalai Lama
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
    Maya Angelou
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes
fear.
    Rosa Parks
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
    Vincent van Gogh
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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are
empty.
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What'is money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must
apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
    Leonardo da Vinci
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
    Booker T. Washington
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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our
possibilities become limitless.
    Jamie Paolinetti
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If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
    Sheryl Sandberg
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Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
    Ancient Indian Proverb
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
    Confucius
----
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world.
    Anne Frank
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to
life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I
wrote down "happy”. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told
them they didn't understand life.
    John Lennon
----
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
    Ronald Reagan
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Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
    George Addair
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of
life is when men are afraid of the light.
    Plato
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Nothing will work unless you do.
    Maya Angelou
----
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to
create many ripples.
    Mother Teresa
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
    Plutarch
----
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work,
and learning from failure.
    Colin Powell
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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who
live and work in it.
    Dee Hock
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees,
motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't
miss.
    Lee Iacocca
----
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company
from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
    Sam Walton
----
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of
the prospect.
    W. Clement Stone
----
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls
to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust
relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who
can help you.
    Reid Hoffman
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
    Edward Gibbon
----
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and
reflect.
    Mark Twain
----
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
    B. C. Forbes
----
I want to put a ding in the universe.
    Steve Jobs
----
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action
rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
    Jack Welch
----
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless.
    Thomas A. Edison
----
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good
question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
    Jeff Bezos
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
    Aristotle Onassis
----
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others
look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse,
pulling a sturdy wagon.
    Winston Churchill
----
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say
thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
    Max de Pree
----
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves
their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely
following? The extra mile.
    Gary Ryan Blair
----
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design,
manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
    Tom Peters
----
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
    Dale Carnegie
----
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people
that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of
failing with.
    Paula Abdul
----
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
    Peter Drucker
----
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of
satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded
our best.
    Theodore Isaac Rubin
----
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them
quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
    Steve Jobs
----
Details create the big picture.
    Sanford I. Weill
----
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
----
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from
reliable figures.
    Evan Esar
----
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll
have to ram them down people's throats.
    Howard Aiken
----
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in
creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
    Napoleon Hill
----
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to
that basket.
    Elon Musk
----
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out,
starting with himself.
    Blaine Lee
----
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your
project or service, and that bring friends with them.
    W. Edwards Deming
----
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the
weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
    Richard Nelson Bolles
----
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
    Benjamin Jowett
----
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
    Andy Warhol
----
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I
am the prod.
    Winston Churchill
----
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference
whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the
people it keeps.
    Mary Kay Ash
----
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art
and working is art and good business is the best art.
    Andy Warhol
----
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your
subordinates.
    Don Marquis
----
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose
to compete in those markets must change.
    An Wang
----
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to
get their work done.
    Peter Drucker
----
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console
yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
    Jane Fonda
----
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
    Don Marquis
----
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
    Tom Brokaw
----
So little done, so much to do.
    Cecil Rhodes
----
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even
more than teamwork.
    Igor Sikorsky
----
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we
expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    Adam Smith
----
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an
expert in anything.
    W. Clement Stone
----
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what
will sell.
    Confucius
----
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is
best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department.
    Andrew Carnegie
----
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
    James H. Boren
----
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as
an opportunity.
    Peter Drucker
----
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
    Tom Peters
----
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People
who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
    Peter Drucker
----
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
    J. Paul Getty
----
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall,
and falling, they're given wings.
    Jalaluddin Rumi
----
Opportunities don't happen, you create them.
    Chris Grosser
----
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
    Farrah Gray
----
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
    Gloria Steinem
----
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
    Zig Ziglar
----
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
    Babe Ruth
----
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
    John Wooden
----
Leap, and the net will appear.
    John Burroughs
----
Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The
prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
It always seems impossible until it's done.
    Nelson Mandela
----
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life
everything he's got.
    Walter Cronkite
----
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
    Conan O'Brien
----
Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
    Nelson Mandela
----
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make
of our lives, then work hard toward that goal. We never lose, somehow we win
out.
    Ronald Reagan
----
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
    James Barrie
----
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
    Joseph Barbara
----
Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me. You got a
dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna
tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period.
    Will Smith as Chris Gardner, The Pursuit Of Happyness
----
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is
what makes it great.
    Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan, A League Of Their Own
----
Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand.
Forget about the thousand.
Concentrate on the one.
    Doctor Who, the magician apprentice
----
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -
that's why we recommend it daily.
    Zig Ziglar
----
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
    Tony Hsieh, Zappos founder and CEO
----
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling
over.
    Richard Branson
----
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
    Bill Gates
----
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
    Mike Tyson
----
We would estimate, very roughly, that a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to
50,000 hours staring at chess positions.
    Herbert Simon and William Chase
----
Because your brain doesn't have a brain.
    David Allen
----
Let's get real, or let's not play
    Mahan Khalsa
----
A sentence should never be cruel and unusual.
    William C. Burton, attorney
----
I have made this letter longer that usual because I lack the time to make it
shorter.
    Blaise Pascal, mathematician
----
Clarity begins at home.
    Edie Schwager, speaker with the American Medical Writers Association
----
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of
simplicity.
    Robert Stuberg, author and speaker
----
I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents when I can write 'city' and get paid
the same.
    Mark Twain, author
----
When writing about science, don't simplify the science; simplify the writing.
    Julie Ann Miller, former editor of Science News
----
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
    Winston Churchill, former British prime minister
----
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.
Simple as that.
    Stephen King, author
----
All good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start
somewhere.
    Anne Lamott, author
----
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
    William Wheeler, journalist and author
----
Easy reading is damn hard writing
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
----
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's
document.
    H. G. Wells, author
----
You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.
    Stephen C. Hogan
----
When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So
I did 10 times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it
with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree.
You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
    Henry Rollins
----
Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes
out of you.
    William James
----
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the
discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it
badly enough.
    Sophia Loren
----
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success.
    Swami Sivananda
----
If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will
pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
----
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy,
selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard
work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the
person we are today.
    Pope Paul VI
----
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from
the successful one is a lot of hard work.
    Stephen King
----
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
    J.G. Holland
----
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
    Edward H. Harriman
----
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt
sleeves.
    Garth Henrichs
----
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
    Marcus Washling
----
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
    Robert Brault
----
You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or
better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.
    Terri Guillemets
----
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
    Dutch proverb
----
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the
recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
----
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
    George Bernard Shaw
----
A person who does not want to be struck by the enemy's arrows will have no
divine protection.
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
----
The Doctor: You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You're not superior to
people who were cruel to you. You're just a whole bunch of new cruel people.
A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who'll
end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're
prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?

Bonnie: Why should we?

The Doctor: What is it that you actually want?

Bonnie: War.

The Doctor: Ah. And when this war is over, when -- when you have the homeland
free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know?
Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're
very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a
picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work?
What'll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be
allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well?
Oh, You don't actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming
child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me
ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all
the bad guys, and it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got
it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like
you? The troublemakers.
How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?

Bonnie: We'll win.

Doctor: Oh, will you? Well maybe -- maybe you will win. But nobody wins for
long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.

Bonnie: Then why are you still talking?

The Doctor: Because I'm trying to get you to see. And I'm almost there.

Bonnie: Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need.
A 50% chance.

Kate: For us, too.

[The Doctor sighs.]

The Doctor: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky?
Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be
the luckiest?

Kate: This is not a game!

The Doctor: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.

Bonnie: Why are you doing this?

Kate: Yes, I'd like to know that too. You set this up -- why?

The Doctor: Because it's not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war.
Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it's always the same.
When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea
who's going to die. You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn.
How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered!
How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to
have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! Listen to me, listen.
I just -- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is?
It's just a fancy word for changing your mind.

Bonnie: I will not change my mind.

The Doctor: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from
that box. You could walk right out of that door, and you could stand your
revolution down.

Bonnie: No, I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it.
You think they'll let me go after what I've done?

The Doctor: You're all the same, you screaming kids, you know that?
"Look at me, I'm unforgivable." Well here's the unforeseeable, I forgive you.
After all you've done. I forgive you.

Bonnie: You don't understand. You will never understand.

The Doctor: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand.
I mean, do you call this a war, this funny little thing? This is not a war.
I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you
could ever imagine, and when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone
could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain?
Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... Til it burns your hand.
And you say this -- no one else will ever have to live like this.
No one else will ever have to feel this pain. Not on my watch.

[Kate closes her box.]

The Doctor: Thank you. Thank you.

Kate: I'm sorry.

The Doctor: I know. I know, thank you.

[The Doctor looks back to Bonnie.]

Well?

Bonnie: It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes -- there's nothing in them.
Just buttons.

The Doctor: Of course. But you know how you know that? Because you've started
to think like me. It's hell, isn't it? No one should have to think like that.
And no one will. Not on our watch.

[The Doctor and Bonnie stare at one another for a moment.]

The Doctor: Gotcha.

Bonnie: How can you be so sure?

The Doctor: Because you have a disadvantage, Zygella. I know that face.

Kate: Well, this is all very well, but as know the boxes are empty now.
We can't forget that.

The Doctor: No, well, uh... You've said that the last 15 times.

[The Doctor uses his sunglasses, which begin pulsing.]

Bonnie: You didn't wipe my memory.

The Doctor: No. Just Kate's. Oh, and your little friends here, of course.
When they wake up, they won't remember what you've done. It'll be our secret.

Bonnie: You're going to protect me?

Osgood: Well, you're one of us now, whether you like it or not.

Bonnie: I don't understand how You could just forgive me.

The Doctor: Because I've been where you have. There was another box.
I was gonna press another button. I was going to wipe out all of my own kind.
Man, woman, and child. I was so sure I was right.

Bonnie: What happened?

The Doctor: Same thing that happened to you. I let Clara Oswald get inside my
head.

[The Doctor looks at Clara.]

The Doctor: Trust me... She doesn't leave.
    Doctor who, S9E8 - The Zygon Inversion
----
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other
by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and
permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable
will.
    Mahatma Gandhi
----
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at
something, they'll tell you.
    Walter Payton
----
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you
are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
    Lou Holtz
----
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge -- but rather in a lack of will.
    Vince Lombardi
----
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about
achieving it and staying with that plan.
    Tom Landry
----
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
    George Hallas
----
There are only three things you should ever do about a mistake: Admit it, learn
from it, don't repeat it.
    Bear Bryant
----
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.
    Bill Belichick
----
Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work
and leadership all come together.
    Tom Coughlin
----
Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.
    Tom Coughlin
----
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
    Ronnie Lott
----
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence. If
you're in control, they're in control.
    Tom Landry
----
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
    Vince Lombardi
----
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one
play at a time.
    Frank Tarkenton
----
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others
can't.
    Jerry Rice
----
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class,
and be humble.
    John Madden
----
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
    Mike Ditka
----
Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.
    Mark Levy
----
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
    Jimmy Johnson
----
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and
look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
    Bruce Lee
----
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
    Bruce Lee
----
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
    Bruce Lee
----
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind.
    Bruce Lee
----
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
    Bruce Lee
----
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
    Bruce Lee
----
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who
has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
    Bruce Lee
----
Real living is living for others.
    Bruce Lee
----
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older,
our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Bruce Lee
----
As you think, so shall you become.
    Bruce Lee
----
Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost
    Doctor Who
----
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but
*actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big
ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
    Doctor Who
----
You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world.
This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
    Doctor Who
----
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
    Doctor Who
----
Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on
fire; through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought, and a whole,
terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old
eyes. And one thing I can tell you, Alex... Monsters are real.
    Doctor Who
----
And if anyone happens to ask whether I made any material difference to the
welfare of this planet, you can tell them I came and went like a summer cloud.
    Doctor Who
----
It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's
turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's
standing still... I can feel it: the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our
feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around
the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space,
you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go...
That's who I am
    Doctor Who
----
When you wake up... I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay. We're all
stories, in the end... just make it a good one, eh? Because it was. It was the
best.
    Doctor Who
----
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and
the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere
there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's
getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.
    Doctor Who
----
I'm a Time Lord... you don't understand the implications. I'm not a human
being; I walk in eternity.
    Doctor Who
----
We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through
our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as
you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of
this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.
    Doctor Who
----
Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension?
Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without
friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day.
    Doctor who
----
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good
things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't
always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
    Doctor Who
----
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better
is best.
    St. Jerome
----
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
     Nikos Kazantzakis
----
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
    Og Mandino
----
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
    Charles R. Swindoll
----
On Tactics level you are right, but on strategy level you are completely wrong
----
If I didn't take people where they hired me to take them, I wouldn't expect
them to get back on my bus. We expect leaders to take us where we want to go.
The problem, it seems to me, begins when they don't. When things do not improve
and yet these leaders keep expecting us to get on their bus, I think this is
when leaders become something else. Politicians.
    Capheus, Sense 8, Session 2, Episode 2
----
Like sewage, smartphones, and Donald Trump, some things are just inevitable.
    The Doctor, session 10, episode 12 - session finale
----
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good
things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't
always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
    The Doctor, Season 5, Episode 10
----
Do what I do. Hold tight and pretend it's a plan!
    The Doctor, Season 7, Christmas Special
----
In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important
    The Doctor, Season 6, Christmas Special
----
We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
    The Doctor, Season 5, Episode 13
----
Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive.
Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.
    The Doctor, Season 6, Episode 4
----
You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand!
You say no! You have the guts to do what's right, even when everyone else just
runs away.
    Rose Tyler, Season 1, Episode 13
----
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but
*actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big
ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff
    Doctor Who
----
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
    Doctor Who
----
You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common:
they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit
their views.
    Doctor Who
----
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always
turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
----
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to
stand up for another.
    Veronica Roth, Divergent
----
Don't think or judge, just listen.
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
----
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
    Sigmund Freud
----
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to
let you know that something is worth it.
    C. JoyBell C.
----
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that
they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
    C. JoyBell C.
----
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
    Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
----
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will
be better tomorrow.
    Maya Angelou
----
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other
people think.
    C. JoyBell C.
----
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a
choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes
you. Choose wisely.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future,
focus on living fully in the present.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean
everything to them.
    Roy T. Bennett
----
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your
heart.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you
can create.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change,
grow, and transform.
    Roy T. Bennett
----
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less
stressed. More love, less hate.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on
someone else's life.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams
according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of
others.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would
be happy with more.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change
the future.
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
----
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe
and comfortable.
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern
----
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was
beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you
might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or
because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that
allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
    Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
----
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
----
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
    C.G. Jung
----
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will
fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late,
or maybe forever
    Dave Matthews Band
----
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
----
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
    Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
----
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it
be worth my time and energy for the short term?
    Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
----
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
    Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
----
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula
for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
    Herbert Bayard Swope
----
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn
fool about it.
    W.C. Fields
----
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
    Albert Einstein
----
We should always be asking ourselves: "Is this something that is, or is not, in
my control?"
    Epictetus
----
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
The twining strands of fate wove both of them together.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
    Seneca
----
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
----
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
    Seneca
----
Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen
as they do and your life will go smoothly.
    Epictetus
----
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in
the face and know them for what they are.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
    Epictetus
----
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
    Seneca
----
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
    Epictetus
----
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
    Seneca
----
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to
live.
    Marcus Aurelius
----
Planning to retire? Before you do find your hidden passion, do the thing that
you have always wanted to do.
    Catherine Pulsifer
----
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
    George Bernard Sha
----
Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have
always been.
    J. A. West
----
Retirement is supposed to be the great escape from the stresses inherent in most
jobs, a time to experience a fulfilling life derived from many enjoyable and
rewarding activities.
    Ernie J. Zelinski
----
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
    John Barrymore
----
Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.
    Danielle Duckery
----
Once the mindless myths associated with aging are dispelled, people of
traditional retirement age must learn to identify the purpose they can pursue
with a passion.
    Helen L. Harkness
----
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
    Vince Lombardi
----
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
    George Foreman
----
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
    Abe Lemons
----
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a
summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float
across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
    Lubbock
----
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be
anywhere.
    George Burns
----
Choose a work that you love and you won't have to work another day.
    Confucius
----
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
    Chi Chi Rodriguez
----
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of
something else.
    Fred Rogers
----
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
----
There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to
happen. Some call it "retirement." I call it bliss.
    Betty Sullivan
----
A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients
have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.
    Harry Mahtar
----
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
    Margaret Mead
----
Please remember that retirement is a different way of life, with new challenges
and opportunities. You need to adapt and adjust to this new lifestyle, and that
takes time, effort, and creativity.
    Rick Steiner
----
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
    Earl Nightingale
----
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.
    C.S. Lewis
----
Retirement does not mean that you are all through. It means that you have
experienced a big break-through to a new freedom, with the time to do the
things you've always wanted to do.
    Wilfred Peterson
----
Today we are living longer and retiring earlier, allowing us twenty-five or more
years to pursue lifelong goals and passions. Rather than fading into the sunset,
we have time to rediscover our personal uniqueness, deepen relationships, and
question the mysteries of life.
    Douglas Fletcher
----
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is
empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
    Arthur E. Morgan
----
Retire from work, but not from life.
    M.K. Soni
----
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his
experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
    Bernard Baruch
----
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have
to find time for illness.
    Edward Stanley
----
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what
they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at
all.
    Ann Landers
----
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting
caught at it.
    Gene Perret
----
There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell what
mutton tastes like.
    Somerset Maugham
----
My writing is full of lives I might have led. A writer imagines what could have
happened, not what really happened.
    Joyce Carol Oates
----
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
    Henry David Thoreau
----
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like,
but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination
will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to
get right are the facts of his own experience.
    W. Somerset Maugham
----
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of
them.
    John Ashbery
----
Books always Fiction-generalspeak of other books, and every story tells a story
that has already been told.
    Umberto Eco
----
Books are for nothing but to inspire.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had
been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of
themselves like grass.
    Eudora Welty
----
...books should be like a prime rib steak - good and thick.
    E.A. Bucchianeri
----
The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.
    Lailah Gifty Akita
----
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction
manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an
economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second
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Oregon, or a small town like Papa, Hawaii, I can provide that second eye.
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The Universe speaks in many languages but only one voice. A language which is
not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari.
It speaks in the language of hope.

It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and
the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and of the language
of the soul; but always it is the same voice; it is the voice of our ancestors
speaking through us, and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born; it is
the small still voice that says: "We are one." No matter the blood, no matter
the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. We are one. No matter the
pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. We are
one. Here, gathered together in common cause we agree to recognize this singular
truth and this singular rule: that we must be kind to one another.

Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes
us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will
light the way to a better future.  We are one.

We are one.

    Babylon 5, Season 5: The Wheel of Fire
----
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
    Roy Carlson
----
Not all treasure is silver and gold mate
    Jack Sparrow
----
You've stolen me and I-m here to take myself back
    Jack Sparrow
----
If you choose to lock your heart away, you'll lose it for certain
    Jack Sparrow
----
Why fight when you can negotiate?
    Jack Sparrow
----
Wherever we want to go, we go...
    Jack Sparrow
----
This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain
Jack Sparrow
    Jack Sparrow
----
The seas may be rough, but I am the Captain! No matter how difficult I will
always prevail.
    Jack Sparrow
----
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Do you understand?
    Jack Sparrow
----
What a man can do and what a man can't do.
    Jack Sparrow
----
My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are in
trouble.
    Jack Sparrow
----
I regret nothing, ever
    Jack Sparrow
----
Better to not know which moment may be your last alive to be mystery of it all.
    Jack Sparrow
----
Close your eyes and pretend all a bad dream. That's how I get by.
    Jack Sparrow
----
Why is all the rum gone?
    Jack Sparrow
----
Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing it again.
    Jack Sparrow
----
The world's still the same. There's just less in it.
    Jack Sparrow
----
I can let you drown
    Jack Sparrow
----
Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?
    Jack Sparrow
----
I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never
predict when they're going to do something incredibly ... stupid.
    Jack Sparrow
----
If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.
    Jack Sparrow
----
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and
stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. Unhappy the land
that is in need of heroes.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
    Bertolt Brecht
----
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their
heels.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
    Bertolt Brecht
----
War is like love; it always finds a way.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Temptation to behave is terrible.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't
understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them
good.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with
peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is?
No organization.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to
learn.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and
victories for the fellows at the bottom.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't
good enough.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Right is its own defense.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into
warring factions.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something wrong.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should
carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that
there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but
you do have to be insured.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything
else is number two.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Why be a man when you can be a success?
    Bertolt Brecht
----
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to
themselves, they last too long.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Grub first, then ethics.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Everyone needs help from everyone.
    Bertolt Brecht
----
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
    Winston Churchill
----
Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you,
they insist that their friends do business with you.
    Chip Bell
----
In the world of Internet customer service, it's important to remember your
competitor is only one mouse click away.
    Doug Warner
----
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
----
Customer service represents the heart of a brand in the hearts of its customers.
    Kate Nasser
----
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
    Dale Carnegie
----
Customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire
company.
   Tony Hsieh
----
There is a big difference between a satisfied customer and a loyal customer.
Never settle for 'satisfied'.
    Shep Hyken
----
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It
is the customer who pays the wages.
     Henry Ford
----
Although your customers won't love you if you give bad service, your competitors
will.
     Kate Zabriskie
----
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
     James Cash Penney
----
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
    Winston S. Churchill
----
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong
road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark
on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
    Barbara Hall
----
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because
they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
    Dalai Lama
----
The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit
that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning,
joy, or passion.
     Terry Orlick
----
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
    W. Clement Stone
----
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who
only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
    James Allen
----
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding
something to live for.
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
----
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
    Michel de Montaigne
----
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so
that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more
easily.
    Jack Canfield
----
The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
    Thomas Carlyle
----
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
    John F. Kennedy
----
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through
fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
----
The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
    Charles Dickens
----
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no
matter what may be one's aim.
    John D. Rockefeller
----
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are
ultimately to be at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be.
    Abraham Maslow
----
Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work
has been put in every heart.
    Jalaluddin Rumi
----
You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to
have what you want.
    Margaret Young
----
Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
    Lewis Carrol
----
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.
    Mark Black
----
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes...
Including you.
    Anne Lamott
----
Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more
efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them.
    Mike Dooley
----
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your
priorities.
    Stephen Covey
----
You can do anything-but not everything.
    David Allen
----
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to
control it.
    Kahlil Gibran
----
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight.
    Benjamin Franklin
----
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to
face.
    Nelson DeMille
----
It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
    Hans Selye
----
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important
decision in your life.
    Paulo Coelho
----
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will
make one.
    Elbert Hubbard
----
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so
cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you
fail by default.
    J.K. Rowling
----
Stress is the trash of modern life; we all generate it, but if you don't
dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
    Danzae Pace
----
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it.
But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again
today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
    John Newton
----
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.
Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you
if you hold on to it.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
----
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
    Alexander Graham Bell
----
Do not listen with the intent to reply. But listen with the intent to
understand.
    Stephen R. Covey
----
Choose to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each
other. Love is a commitment, not a feeling.
    Dave Willis
----
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
----
A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs.
    Dada J. P. Vaswani
----
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with
our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as
important as our answers.
    Fred Rogers
----
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to
understand that this too, was a gift.
    Mary Oliver
----
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams
all the way to the sea.
    Mikhail Lermontov
----
Even too much sunshine can be devastating, while only with rain can growth
occur. Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life.
    Donald S. Neviaser
----
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all
small stuff.
    Robert Eliot
----
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one
year ago.
    E. Joseph Cossman
----
Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.
    Joan Borysenko
----
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
We think too much and feel too little.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the
people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never
perish.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me
on a far higher plane than any politician.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
In the end, everything is a gag.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage,
imagination ... and a little dough.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Imagination means nothing without doing.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have
been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of
romance and adventure.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than
one can express.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
I am a citizen of the world.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right
moment.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
What a sad business, being funny
    Charlie Chaplin
----
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or
go insane.
    Charlie Chaplin
----
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes politics
----
Why don't you like hugging, Doctor?
Never trust a hug. Its just a way to hide your face.
    Doctor Who, Death in Heaven.
----
You know, I'm over two thousand years old. I'm old enough to be your messiah.
    Doctor who, S9E8 - The Zygon Inversion
----
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible
things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen.
'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
There goes the shawl again!
    Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
----
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of
useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
----
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
    Frank Herbert
----
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
    Frank Herbert
----
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the
corruptible.
    Frank Herbert
----
When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the
entire court can watch him die
    The Gangs of New York
----
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
    Seneca
----
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer
more in imagination than in reality.
    Seneca
----
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
----
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
    Seneca
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
    Seneca
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
    Seneca
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Time heals what reason cannot.
    Seneca
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what
matters.
    Seneca
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination
than from reality.
    Seneca
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the
future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing.
    Seneca
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
    Seneca
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Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
    Seneca
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the
dawn.
    Seneca
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Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I
overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?
    Seneca
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
    Seneca
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We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there
would be no end of them.
    Seneca
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do
not dare that things are difficult.
    Seneca
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
    Seneca
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Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.
    Seneca
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
    Seneca
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You want to live but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying and tell
me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
    Seneca
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The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man
is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has
not.
    Seneca
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you'll be able to use them better
when you're older.
    Seneca
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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you
desire.
    Seneca
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
    Seneca
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
    Seneca
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against
adversity.
    Seneca
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.
... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided
but use what we have wastefully.
    Seneca
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is
not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
    Seneca
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He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
    Seneca
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Wealth is the slave of the wise. The master of the fool.
    Seneca
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Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many
things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had
them.
    Seneca
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
    Seneca
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave
life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
    Seneca
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We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
    Isaiah Berlin
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
    Isaiah Berlin
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
    Isaiah Berlin
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be
where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there,
and if so, why, and if not, why not.
    Isaiah Berlin
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Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no
morality and no art, but it can refute it.
    Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
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The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things
coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually
incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together.
That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may
entail an irreparable loss.
    Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind
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All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
    Isaiah Berlin
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If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems,
that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what
is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no
price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise.
Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put
to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws
must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need
be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter.
    Isaiah Berlin
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
    Isaiah Berlin
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[People] cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to
themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply affect their lives,
not least when they are unconscious; much of [their] misery and frustration...
is due to the mechanical and unconscious, as well as deliberate, application of
models where they do not work…The goal of philosophy is always the same, to
assist [people] to understand themselves and thus operate in the open and not
wildly, in the dark.
    Isaiah Berlin
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The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times,
everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that
only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.
    Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
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Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,
everyone will respect you.
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, "We did this ourselves."
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on
to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives
it its power. if you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below
them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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The further one goes, the less one knows.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Love

Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted.
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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When there is no desire, all things are at peace
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.
Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.

The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others,
the happier he is.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Love is a decision - not an emotion!
    Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Lies travel faster than the truth.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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You don't get what you deserve, you get what you take.
    Lizzie Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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For those who make the rules, there are no rules.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend. And usually, it comes far too f*cking late.
    Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders
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An agreement is not the same thing as an assurance.
    Chester Campbell, Peaky Blinders
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In all the world the only thing that interests me is the truth.
    Chester Campbell, Peaky Blinders
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When you plan something well there's no need to rush.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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When there are no rules, women take charge.
    Tatiana Petrovna, Peaky Blinders
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You have to get what you want your own way.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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To make sure your dog obeys you, you have to show it the stick once in a while.
    Chester Campbell, Peaky Blinders
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The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Life is so much easier to deal with when you are dead.
    Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders
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Ambition for respectability doesn't make you a saint.
    Father John Hughes, Peaky Blinders
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I don't need a knife to stop me telling secrets given in confidence. It is a matter of honor.
    Esme Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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You strike when your enemy is weak.
    Tommy Shelby
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My suits are on the house, or the house burns down.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Good taste is for people who can't afford sapphires.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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People are loyal to those who pay their wages.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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It's not a good idea to look at Tommy Shelby the wrong way.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Those of you who are last will soon be first. And those of you who are downtrodden will rise up.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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I'm not a traitor to my class. I am just an extreme example of what a working man can achieve.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Please don't listen to my sister's opinions of me. They are always hopeful. Therefore they are always wrong.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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There is no rest for me in this world. Perhaps in the next.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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You can change what you do, but you can't change what you want.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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If you apologize once, you do it again and again and again. Like taking bricks out of the wall of your f*cking house.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Five for peace, two for truce, one abstention. Let's get on with the war.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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I have made arrangements with men I trust. If I should die, then you will die, know that.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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People thinking I'm going to fall, they start behaving in a different way around you.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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There's a part of me that is unfamiliar to myself. And I keep finding myself there.
    Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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There's good in my heart, but these hands belong to the devil.
    Arthur Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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I know who I am, Linda. I know who I am and I'm all right with it. Finally, I can live with it.
    Arthur Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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This place is under new management, by order of the peaky blinders.
    Arthur Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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In the end, it's God who pulls that f*cking trigger anyway. We don't get to decide who lives and who dies, Finn. Not us. You just have to flick a switch.
    Arthur Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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I'm an old man and my heart's battered vessel, but within, there still beats a fluttering pulse of a dream.
    Arthur Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Are you f*cking repenting or something?
    John Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Anyway, we're Peaky Blinders. We're not scared of coppers. If they come for us, we'll cut them a smile each.
    John Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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Aunt Pol, when I was Michael's age I'd killed a hundred men and seen a thousand die. If you want to scare that kid away forever, carry on how you're going. If you want him to stay, let him come.
    John Shelby, Peaky Blinders
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One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a
political party.
    Franz Kafka
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
    Franz Kafka
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
    Franz Kafka
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
    Franz Kafka
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
    Franz Kafka
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Paths are made by walking.
    Franz Kafka
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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of
themselves.
    Franz Kafka
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
    Franz Kafka
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
    Franz Kafka
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
    Franz Kafka
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
    Franz Kafka
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
    Franz Kafka
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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
    Franz Kafka
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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
    Franz Kafka
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
    Franz Kafka
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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
    Franz Kafka
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
    Franz Kafka
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First impressions are always unreliable.
    Franz Kafka
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
That is the point that must be reached.
    Franz Kafka
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