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Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Marilyn Ferguson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
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Douglas Noel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Lord Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
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The "Xlib Programming Manual"
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
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Robinson Jeffers
Civilization is a transient sickness.
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Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Sir John Lubbock
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
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Michael Friedman
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
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Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
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Unknown
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
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