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Washington Post Magazine
At Group L, Stoffel oversees
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection,
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
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Chinese Proverb
Unles we change direction, we
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read,
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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George Washington
Government is not reason; it
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
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Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is so dangerous as
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is my belief, Watson,
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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Lenny Bruce
There are no dirty words,
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
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Andy Warhol
They say that time changes
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
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Anne Besant
Knowledge is essential to conquest;
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
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Bob Dylan
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
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Bill Nye
The more you find out
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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Artemus Ward
Why is this thus? What
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
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Sir Thomas More
Nay, tempt me not to
Nay, tempt me not to love again:
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Anonymous
The greatest oak was once
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
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Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Eh! Je suis leur chef,
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.
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William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which
What though the radiance which was once so bright
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Wall Street Journal
Before the Gulf War started,
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
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Evelyn Waugh
Suffering is none the less
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
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Charles Grodin
Everyone is having a harder
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
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Benjamin Johnson
It is not growing like
It is not growing like a tree
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Larry Wall in
Real programmers can write assembly
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
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George S. Patton
If a man does his
If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for?
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Sylvia Levi
She (India) has left indelible
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.
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