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- About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
- Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- Cullen Hightower
- A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy
- My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
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