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A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.: Mark Ardis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
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All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.: Unknown
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Hold a true friend with both hands.: Nigerian Proverb
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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.: Rita Mae Brown
The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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