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- Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
- Graffito
- Beware the man of one book.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The wise learn many things from their enemies.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
- Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
- Longfellow
- Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Seditions and Troubles
- Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Unknown
- All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
- Holt's Law
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