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| Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. |
Anon. |
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| To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. |
Anon. |
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| Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS... |
Anon. |
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| Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green |
Anon. |
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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. |
Anon. |
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| Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... |
Anon. |
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| Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE |
Anon. |
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| Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. |
Anon. |
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| The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door. |
Anon. |
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| Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. |
Anon. |
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| Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever. |
Anon. |
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| Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away. |
Anon. |
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| Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. |
Anon. |
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| Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. |
Anon. |
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| Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. |
Anon. |
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| Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. |
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
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| We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other. |
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
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| L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.) |
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
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| You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. |
Medgar Evers |
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| It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. |
Ornette Coleman |
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| 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 |
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| N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see. |
Shaquille ONeal |
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| Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. |
Shaquille ONeal |
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| The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches Libertarianism by bankruptcy. |
Nick Nuessle |
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| The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. |
Stephen King |
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| Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. |
Stephen King |
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| His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path. |
Stephen King |
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| If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. |
Stephen King |
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| You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. |
Stephen King |
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| We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
C. G. 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. |
C. G. Jung |
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| This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. |
William Blake |
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| It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. |
William Blake |
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| When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. |
William Blake |
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| No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. |
William Blake |
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| Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. |
William Blake |
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| A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. |
William Blake |
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| Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. |
William Blake |
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| I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow. |
William Blake |
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| He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe. |
William Blake |
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| When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. |
William Blake |
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| It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. |
William Blake |
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| He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. |
William Blake |
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| The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. |
William Blake |
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| For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. |
William Blake |
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| The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. |
William Blake |
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| What is now proved was once only imagined. |
William Blake |
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| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. |
William Blake |
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| He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. |
William Blake |
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| Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite. |
William Blake |
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| Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake. |
William Blake |
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| The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. |
William Blake |
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| The weak in courage is strong in cunning. |
William Blake |
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| To generalize is to be an idiot. |
William Blake |
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| I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. |
William Blake |
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| And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury. |
William Blake |
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| If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. |
William Blake |
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| 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 |
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| My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud. |
William Blake |
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| Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. |
William Blake |
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| Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. |
William Blake |
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| Energy is eternal delight. |
William Blake |
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| I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. |
William Blake |
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| As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. |
William Blake |
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| Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. |
William Blake |
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| When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head |
William Blake |
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| To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. |
Henri Cartier-Bresson |
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| We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. |
Nelson Mendela |
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| I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| They sicken of the calm that know the storm. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania. |
Dorothy Parker |
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| The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. |
Walter Bagehot |
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| It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat |
Joseph Conrad |
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| The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| All a man can betray is his conscience. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. |
Joseph Conrad |
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