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Mark Twain
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
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Madame de Tencin
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
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Martin Schulze
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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Francis Jeffrey
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
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Pancho Villa
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Dan Salomon
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On"
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
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Strugatsky
When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work.
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