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If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Gene Spafford
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Author: Lord Byron
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
Topic: Results
Author: George Henry Borrow
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Flora Edwards
Make sure you want it enough.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Frank Kingdon
Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.
Topic: Expectation
Author: John Walcot
I know you know what I think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Colin Wilson
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
Topic: Prejudice
Author: Friedrich H Jacobi
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! -Anne Sullivan.
Topic: Heart Quotes
Author: Anne Sullivan
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Topic: Nothing
Author: Joseph Addison
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.
Topic: Embarrassments
Author: Al Capp
When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.
Topic: Memory
Author: William Bliss Carman
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Topic: Disease
Author: Publilius Syrus
Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved of many.
Topic: Fishermen
Author: John Chalkhill
Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
Topic: Unity
Author: John Dickinson
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Topic: Repression
Author: John Stuart Mill
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Stephen Covey