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- Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
- Jess Lair
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) - William Occam
- From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
- Louis Adamic
- Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village.
- Morrow Mayo
- ... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.
- Sun System & Network Admin manual
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