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- The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young
- A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
- David Coblitz
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
- Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies
- The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
- The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson (1948 - )
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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