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"When you blame others, you
give up your power to change."
- Robert Anthony

"The earth is like a spaceship that
didn't come with an operating manual."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he
is fond of you; but if a cat does the same
thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"The ships hung in the sky in much
the same way that bricks don't."
- Douglas Adams

Count Dracula: Listen to them.
Children of the night.
What music *they* make!
- Dracula (1931)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies
than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian

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Where does one go from a world of insanity?
Somewhere on the other side of despair.
- T. S. Eliot

‘The "silly question" is the first intimation
of some totally new development.’
- Alfred North Whitehead

‘There are no foolish questions, and no man has
become a fool until he stops asking questions.’
- Charles P. Steinmetz

For most men life is a search for
the proper manila envelope in which
to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

Eternity is a mere moment,
just long enough for a joke.
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Home computers are being called upon to perform
many new functions, including the consumption of
homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson

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"By all means marry; if you get a good
wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad
one, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa.
Somebody forgot the corkscrew and
for several days we had to live on
nothing but food and water."
- W. C. Fields

"Be kind whenever possible.
It is always possible."
- Dalai Lama

"We think in generalities,
but we live in detail."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"I didn't really say
everything I said."
- Yogi Berra

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet;
adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
- John Ciardi

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"A committee is a cul-de-sac
down which ideas are lured
and then quietly strangled."
- Sir Barnett Cocks

"If you watch a game, it's fun.
If you play at it, it's recreation.
If you work at it, it's golf."
- Bob Hope

"Furious activity is no
substitute for understanding."
- H. H. Williams

"Technology is a way of organizing the
universe so that man doesn't have to
experience it."
- Max Frisch

"At least half the mystery novels
published violate the law that the
solution, once revealed, must seem
to be inevitable."
- Raymond Chandler

"Everything of importance has been said before
by somebody who did not discover it."
- Alfred North Whitehead