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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.: unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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Each body has its art...: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.: Gene Fowler
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
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It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.: Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.: Kanye West
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.: Marilyn Ferguson
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.: Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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