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I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.: Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.: Grabel's Law
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
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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.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.: David Zucker (1947 - )
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I bet the human brain is a kludge.: Marvin Minsky
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.: Frank Leahy
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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