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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Q X Y ZWho are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Author: Carl Sagan
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Author: Wilson Mizner
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
Author: James Thurber
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Author: Lao-Tzu
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
Author: Anatole France
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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
Author: John Ruskin
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
Author: James Thurber
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We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.
Author: Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
Author: John Lancaster Spalding
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Author: Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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He who would travel happily must travel light.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
Author: Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.
Author: James Gordon Gilkey
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Author: Margaret Mead
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Author: J. K. Galbraith
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Author: Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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