Excerpts of Citations
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
~Henry David Thoreau
from Walden: Reading, 1854 -
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
~Homer
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
~Robert Heinlein
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Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
~John Kord Lagemann
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
~George MacDonald
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PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
~Jon Ribbens
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Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
~Douglas Hofstadter
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Flon's Law: There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
~Lawrence Flon
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Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting, he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is...
~Hugh Nibley
from "Of All Things" p. 7 -
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~Sheila Graham
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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
~The Talmud
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Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton
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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
~Jonathan Winters