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If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
Author: Lord Byron
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
Topic: Results
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Make sure you want it enough.
Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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
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.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Topic: Nothing
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.
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
Deja moo: The feeling that you've heard this Bull before!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Topic: Disease
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
Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
Topic: Unity
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
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.