Escritas — Poems List

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every queen is a woman,

Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.

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Izaak Walton

Look to your health and

Look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Television: chewing gum for the

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

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Bill Bulko

Artificial Intelligence: the art of

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

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Ian Bland

Take everything in moderation, including

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

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Vernon A. Walters

Americans have always had an

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

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Robert Heinlein

People who go broke in

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

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Professor Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to

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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Rahul Katragadda

Everything that is worth winning,

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

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Vernon A. Walters

The fact that I was

The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys.

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R. D. Laing

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

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Robert X. Cringely

If the automobile had followed

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

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Rahul Katragadda

A few broken bones won't

A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting.

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Ted Walters

Be bold and the mighty

Be bold and the mighty will follow.

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Georges Clemenceau

America is the only nation

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

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Dave Barry

And, of course, you have

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

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Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

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Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Life is a moment waiting

Life is a moment waiting to happen.

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Groucho Marx

Paying alimony is like feeding

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

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Bernard Avishai

The danger from computers is

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

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Gaius Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".

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Sam Walton

There is only one boss

There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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H. L. Mencken

The best years are the

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

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Frank Mankiewicz

A politician will always tip

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.

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