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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
- Confucius
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson Chairman of IBM
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams
Why is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
- Sir Robert Baden-Powell
A moose is an animal with horns on the front of it’s head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it.
- Groucho Marx
Agree with you the council does. Your apprentice Skywalker will be.
- Yoda
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- DG Altman and MJ Bland
, British Medical Journal 1995; vol 311, p. 485
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
- Lao-Tzu
Good physicians detect events; better physicians detect patterns of events; the best physicians detect the systems that produce the patterns of events.
- David Leach, MD
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
- Leontyne Price
Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of what you did today...make every second count!
- Christie Jean-Baptiste
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Jane Austen
A typical yahoo chat room: "A has signed in, A has signed out, B has signed in, B has signed out, C has signed in, C has signed out.."
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.
Friends Are Treasures
- Horace Bruns
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
- Aristotle
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
- Chinese Proverb
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
- Sir Philip Sidney
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
- David Starr Jordan
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
- Cameroonian Proverb
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
- Scottish proverb
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