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x If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.   Indira Gandhi      
x Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.   Indira Gandhi      
x A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.   Indira Gandhi      
x A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.   Mahatma Gandhi      
x A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.   Mahatma Gandhi      
x By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.   Dietrich Dörner The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right  
By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it. Phrases like "urgently needed measures for combating unemployment" roll easily off the tongue if...
x The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it’s much better to remove things.   Hans Monderman Wired    
x Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it   Donald Knuth      
x Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!   Edsger Dijkstra      
x Sin is behovely, but all shall be well...   Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love  
Sin is behovely, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
x He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit...
x The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
The full text of the quotation is: "The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skillful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skillful reckoner uses no tallies; the skillful closer needs no...
x He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty. He who is satisfied with his lot is rich; he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will. He...
x The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong. Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching    
x Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard...
x The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
The full text of the quotation is: "The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step." Thus great things start from the...
x A violent wind does not last for a whole morning... Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching  
A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much...
x There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. Lao Tzu - Project Gutenberg eText 15250 Laozi Tao Te Ching    
x A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846–1847, for many years the only known photograph of her Emily Dickinson    
A word is dead when it is saidsome say.I say it just begins to livethat day.
x Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846–1847, for many years the only known photograph of her Emily Dickinson      
x There is no there there. Gertrude Stein, 1935 Gertrude Stein Everybody's Autobiography  
Gertrude Stein was referring to the fact that in the 1930s, returning to her hometown of Oakland, CA, she could no longer find her childhood home there.The quote has been taken to refer to Oakland, in response to which the city installed a...
x There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...   Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus  
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide  Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
x In the long run we are all dead.   John Maynard Keynes      
x History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. Mark Twain Mark Twain      
x Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain Mark Twain      
x Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.   Richard Feynman      
x It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding it.   H. L. Mencken      
x We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.   Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man    
x The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.   Marshall McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy    
x The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.   Marshall McLuhan      
x C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.   Bjarne Stroustrup      
x Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.   Washington Irving      
x Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain Mark Twain      
x Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.   Henrik Tikkanen      
x Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. US Postal Stamp of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe      
x They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret. poe_quote.jpg Edgar Allan Poe Eleonora  
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.
x …[I]n order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. Mark Twain Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
x Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Head Albert Einstein      
x For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try… ErnestHemingway Ernest Hemingway    
From his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and...
x Never, never, never give up.   Winston Churchill      
x I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe      
x Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot      
x We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Mark Twain Mark Twain      
x Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others… The front cover of the booklet included with Douglas Adams at the BBC Douglas Adams Last Chance to See  
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
x Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do… Mark Twain Mark Twain    
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
x Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ... T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot    
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
x It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot      
x Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.   Henry David Thoreau      
x Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain Mark Twain      
x The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places… ErnestHemingway Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms  
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill...
x Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.   Henry Drummond      
x If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.   Yogi Berra      
x Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.   Frank Zappa      
x We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.   Aristotle      
x Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ErnestHemingway Ernest Hemingway      
x Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion… T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Tradition and the individual talent  
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from...
x Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night    
x Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. RWEmerson Ralph Waldo Emerson      
x I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. The front cover of the booklet included with Douglas Adams at the BBC Douglas Adams      
x Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald      
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