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- Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule
- Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
- Mike Myers
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas
- I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
- Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
- Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 10-26-07
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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