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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
- Ronald Reagan
Right behind sex, commerce on the Internet seems to excite people the most.
- President, RSA Data Security
If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
- Marus J. Ranum Digital Equipment Corporation
Why is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
There is no teaching to compare with example.
- Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
- Groucho Marx
She's not your friend. She's just someone you use to feel better about yourself.
- Ricky Fitts
, American Beauty
, 1999
The goal of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.
- Malcolm Forbes
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
- Lao Tsu
Confidence to which has been added competence is leadership. Confidence to which has been added the desire to get one's own way is arrogance. The true leader knows the difference.
- Lee Hardy
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Goethe
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
[Perl is] a swiss-army gasoline-powered chainsaw
- Geoff Collyer
, Plan9 fan mailing list.
Warning! Kernel crashed, Run for your lives !
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
- Woodrow Wilson
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
- Richard Watson Gilder
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
War is the business of barbarians.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
- Elliot Masie
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
- T.S. Eliot
He who stops being better stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
- William Shakespeare
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
- Helen Keller
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