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- A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- - B. L. Taylor
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- Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?
- - Dickens
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- Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand
- can turn out a good article on it.
- - M. Twain
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- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
- - S. Goldwyn
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- "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.
- - M. Twain
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- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- - Benjamin Franklin
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- Everything is funny as long as it is happening
- to someone else.
- - Will Rogers
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- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
- - Groucho Marx
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- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie
- is that a cat has only nine lives.
- - M. Twain
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- Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?
- It is because we are not the person involved.
- - M. Twain
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- When angry, count four;
- when very angry, swear.
- - M. Twain
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- A perfect vacuum exists only in the minds of men.
- - P. H. Beck
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- Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
- - Confucian Analects Bk. 15:39
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- Learning without thought is labor lost;
- thought without learning is perilous.
- - Confucian Analects Bk. 2:15
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- The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.
- - Gennerat's Law
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- Our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.
- - Edward Tryon
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- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
- however improbable, must be the truth.
- - Sherlock Holmes
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- admiration, n.
- Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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- bore, n.
- A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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- coward, n.
- One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
- - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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- What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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- Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- - Simeon Strunsky
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- To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- - Confucian Analects, Bk. 11:15,iii
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- He who speaks without modesty will find
- it difficult to make his words good.
- - Confucian Analects, Bk. 14:21
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- Heaven and earth are not humane.
- They regard all things as straw dogs.
- - Lao Tzu
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- He who knows others is wise.
- He who knows himself is enlightened.
- - Lao Tzu
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- He who knows does not speak.
- He who speaks does not know.
- - Lao Tzu
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- To know that you do not know is the best.
- To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
- - Lao Tzu
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- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- - Theophrastus
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- You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
- - Publilius Syrus
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- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- - Sir Isaac Newton
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- The probability of someone watching you is
- proportional to the stupidity of your action.
- - A. Kindsvater
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- The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world,
- were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher,
- as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
- - Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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- Of course you realize this means war!
- - Bugs Bunny
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- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
- and the pessimist fears this is true.
- - James Branch Cabell
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- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- - From the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by Robert Heinlein
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- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- - W. Somerset Maugham
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- Life is a continuing series of multiple-choice questions, with the answers
- torn out of the back of the book.
- - Sydney J. Harris
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- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
- the Universe is for and why it is here. it will instantly disappear and
- be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
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- There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the end of the Universe"
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- The following sentence is false.
- The preceding sentence is true.
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- A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a
- summer insect conceive of ice. How can a scholar
- understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own
- learning.
- - Chung-tse
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- panic: can't spare any memory for you today.
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- !XINIM ni deppart m'I !pleH
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- panic: page segment violation
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- panic: not enough memory (hey, I've got some very cheap 41256's for you)
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- Heaven wheels above you
- Displaying to you eternal glories
- And still your eyes are on the ground.
- - Dante
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- When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is
- produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity
- of things disappears.
- - Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith.
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