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The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
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Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970), Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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E. W. Dijkstra
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
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Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
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John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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