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| You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. |
Glenn Dickey |
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| The harder you work, the luckier you get. |
McAlexander |
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| We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. |
Ben Sweetland |
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| Success is a journey, not a destination. |
Ben Sweetland |
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| Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. |
B. F. Skinner |
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| Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. |
B. F. Skinner |
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| Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters. |
B. F. Skinner |
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| The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. |
B. F. Skinner |
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| Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. |
Leonard Brandwein |
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| The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. |
Bernard Avishai |
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| They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. |
Carl W. Buechner |
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| No one wants advice -- only corroboration. |
John Steinbeck |
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| It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. |
John Steinbeck |
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| I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. |
John Steinbeck |
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| Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. |
John Steinbeck |
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| Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. |
John Steinbeck |
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| Would ye both eat your cake and have your cakeThis is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. |
John Heywood |
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| A hard beginning maketh a good ending. |
John Heywood |
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| A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink. |
John Heywood |
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| Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. |
Alan Coren |
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| Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. |
Alan Coren |
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| 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. |
C.A.R. Hoare |
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| Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches. |
King Henry IV of France |
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| Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
King Henry IV of France |
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| Her children arise up, and call her blessed. |
Proverbs 3128 |
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| It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. |
W. Edwards Deming |
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| ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space. |
Philip Johnson |
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| All art is but imitation of nature. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| We learn not in the school, but in life. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| It is well to be born either a king or a fool. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| In every good man a God doth dwell. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The best ideas are common property. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. |
Lucius Annaeus 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 they are difficult. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| As long as you live, keep learning how to live. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| No man ever became wise by chance. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| ...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The greatest remedy for anger is delay. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| All cruelty springs from weakness. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| That grief is light which can take counsel. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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