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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.
Topic: Choice
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
Topic: Choices
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Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Topic: Choices
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Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Topic: Choices
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Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Topic: Choices
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No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Topic: Choices
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Topic: Choices
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Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
Topic: Choices
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The massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the smallest hinge,
And thus some seeming pettiest chance
Oft gives our life its after-tinge.
The trifles of our daily lives,
The common things, scarce worth recall,
Whereof no visible trace survives,
These are the mainsprings after all.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: in "Harper's Weekly"
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Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these
seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the
illustrious Homer.
[Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,
Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]
Topic: Cities
Source: (translated from Greek)
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To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Topic: Committee
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A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Topic: Committee
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.
Topic: Complaint
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The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_|.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Topic: Consequences
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Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
Topic: Consequences
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Topic: Contentment
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In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
Topic: Cowardice
Source: None
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Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.
Topic: Cowardice
Source: None
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
Topic: Credit
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Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
Topic: Credit
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Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Topic: Crime
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
Topic: Crime
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Topic: Criticism
Source: None
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This dance of death which sounds so musically
Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.
Topic: Dancing
Source: On the Danse Macabre of Saint-Saens
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When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Topic: Decisions
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Topic: Diplomacy
Source: None
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A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
Topic: Diplomacy
Source: None
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It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
Topic: Dogs
Source: None
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The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
Topic: Effort
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The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
Topic: Emotion`
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