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- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- Strike the tent.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), last words, 12 October 1870.
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
- Eric Sloane
- This is quite a three-pipe problem.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- My life may not be scintillating. But living it is more interesting than watching yours.
- Kevin Cheng, OK/Cancel, 05-11-07
- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
- Krishnamurti
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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