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- 186,282 miles per second:
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- It isn't just a good idea, it's the law!
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- "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible
- simulation!"
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- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
- "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- -- Mahatma Ghandi
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- A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- -- Carl Sandburg
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- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining
- and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- -- Mark Twain
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- A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well
- as afterward.
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- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
- won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
- -- Bill Vaughan
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- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
- wants to read.
- -- Mark Twain
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- A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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- A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?
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- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
- subject.
- -- Winston Churchill
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- "A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch
- dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
- -- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"
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- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- -- Adlai Stevenson
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- A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened
- into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the
- hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- -- John Ciardi
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- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
- rearranging their prejudices.
- -- William James
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- A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
- man a century.
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- A hypothetical paradox:
- What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security
- team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of
- Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet?
- -- Tom Galloway
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- A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
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- A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
- not worth knowing.
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- A long memory is the most subversive idea in America.
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- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
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- A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard
- -- Prof. Steiner
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- ... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he
- was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- -- Mark Twain
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- A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an
- exam.
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- A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by
- blowing first.
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- A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
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- According to my best recollection, I don't remember.
- -- Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo
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- All bridge hands are equally likely, but some are more equally likely
- than others.
- -- Alan Truscott
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- "All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us
- sane."
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- "All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
- hands."
- -- Saint Patrick
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- Anthony's Law of Force:
- Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
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- Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
- -- Charles McCabe
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- Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger
- object.
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- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
- -- Rich Kulawiec
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- Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- -- Publilius Syrus
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- Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your
- shoes.
- -- Mickey Mouse
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- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
- certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- -- Albert Einstein
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- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
- -- Weisert
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- "As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500
- programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging."
- -- USA Today, referring to the IRS switchover to a new
- computer system.
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- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
- find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on
- the computer.
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- Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
- -- Mark Twain
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- Bureaucrat, n.:
- A person who cuts red tape sideways.
- -- J. McCabe
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- But scientists, who ought to know
- Assure us that it must be so.
- Oh, let us never, never doubt
- What nobody is sure about.
- -- Hilaire Belloc
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- Cahn's Axiom:
- When all else fails, read the instructions.
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- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- -- Indian proverb
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- Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two
- points.
- -- M. M. Johnston
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- Supplement:
- A .44 magnum beats four aces.
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- Cat, n.:
- Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer.
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- Chemistry is applied theology.
- -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III
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- Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're
- going to catch you in next.
- -- Franklin P. Jones
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- Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
- And that's what parents were created for.
- -- Ogden Nash
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- Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for
- word what you shouldn't have said.
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- Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
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- Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
- -- R. Geis
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- "Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'".
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- Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
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- Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too
- busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
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- Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
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- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and
- it holds the universe together ...
- -- Carl Zwanzig
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- Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate
- and captain of your soul.
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- "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
- there."
- -- Will Rogers
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- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
- signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
- fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
- spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
- genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way
- of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
- humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
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- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
- when you make it again.
- -- F. P. Jones
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- Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
- the instruction afterward.
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- Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
- without looking to see whether the seeds move.
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- Famous last words:
- (1) "Don't worry, I can handle it."
- (2) "You and what army?"
- (3) What happens if you touch these two wires tog--
- (4) Don't unplug it, it will just take a moment to fix.
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- Frisbeetarianism, n.:
- The belief that when you die, your soul goes up the on roof and
- gets stuck.
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