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- ... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.
- Sun System & Network Admin manual
- Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
- There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973)
- Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
- Lina Wertmuller
- Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark.
- O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], Last words, 5 June 1910
- I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
- Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.
- How is the Empire?
- George V, last words, 21 January 1936.
- So little done--so much to do.
- Cecil John Rhodes (Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships), last words, 1902.
- Now comes the mystery.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), last words, 8 March 1887.
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