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- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest. - Gay
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated. - Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
- What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know:
1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them. - Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules)
- Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard
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