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Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
----
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
----
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop
reading them.
Ray Bradbury
----
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman
----
"I put my trust in Allah."
The Prophet then said:
"Tie your camel first, then put your trust in Allah"
At-Tirmidhi, 2517
----
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
----
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives.
Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
Peter F. Drucker
----
it's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.
----
Within the problem lies the solution
Milton Katselas
----
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)
----
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
----
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
----
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
Abraham Lincoln
----
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a
human journey.
Stephen R. Covey
----
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
----
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your
life has touched.
----
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
----
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
----
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
----
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
----
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
----
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
----
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.
----
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
----
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Ben Franklin
----
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh
----
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers
----
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
----
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and
that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
----
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)
----
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
----
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
----
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
----
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Assyrian Proverb
----
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
----
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
Charlie Chaplin
----
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
----
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
----
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
----
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old
enough to know better.
----
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
----
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
----
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo , The College Blue Book
----
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!
Friedrich 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
----
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!
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Change is good, but dollars are better.
----
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
----
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
G. B. Stern
----
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'
Mohandas Gandhi
----
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
----
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
----
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal
kind.
Kay Ingram
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
"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
----
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is
sure.
Mark Twain
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
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
----
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
----
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
----
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
----
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to
plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
----
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen
to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III
----
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
----
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from
those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengal
----
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
----
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
----
If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
Jeanne Holm
----
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
----
Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
----
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
----
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
----
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"
----
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
----
Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.
Howard Chaykin
----
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus
----
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
G.K. Chesterton
----
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
R. Geis
----
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"
----
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
----
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
B. Franklin
----
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tsu
----
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tsu
----
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tsu
----
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
----
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
Gotama Buddha
----
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"]
----
Murphy was an optimist.
----
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
----
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Theodore Sturgeon
----
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
----
Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage.
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To lead people, you must follow behind.
Lao Tsu
----
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Gandhi
----
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
J. Winter Smith
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With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.
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You can get *anywhere* in ten minutes if you drive fast enough.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A log may float in a river, but that does not make it a crocodile.
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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
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat
----
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
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A good friend is often better than a brother.
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A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.
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A man dies when he stops working.
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A man too good for the world is no good for his wife.
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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
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Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless
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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.
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He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
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If your friend becomes your enemy, he will be your enemy for life.
----
One God and so many enemies.
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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
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Some people believe in windows They also believe that the earth is flat.
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Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
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You can lead a man to politics, but you can't make him think
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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
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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.