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- We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King (1947 - )
- It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
- Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
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