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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create
destruction and chaos - just to gain his point... and if all this could in
turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man
would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
-- Feodor Dostoevsky, "Notes From the Underground"
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Freebsd Fortunes 2: 784 of 1371 |
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
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A man's best friend is his dogma.
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A man's gotta know his limitations.
-- Clint Eastwood, "Dirty Harry"
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A man's house is his castle.
-- Sir Edward Coke
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A man's house is his hassle.
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A master was asked the question, "What is the Way?" by a curious monk.
"It is right before your eyes," said the master.
"Why do I not see it for myself?"
"Because you are thinking of yourself."
"What about you: do you see it?"
"So long as you see double, saying `I don't', and `you do', and so
on, your eyes are clouded," said the master.
"When there is neither `I' nor `You', can one see it?"
"When there is neither `I' nor `You',
who is the one that wants to see it?"
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Freebsd Fortunes 2: 790 of 1371 |
A mathematician, a doctor, and an engineer are walking on the beach and
observe a team of lifeguards pumping the stomach of a drowned woman. As
they watch, water, sand, snails and such come out of the pump.
The doctor watches for a while and says: "Keep pumping, men, you may
yet save her!!"
The mathematician does some calculations and says: "According to my
understanding of the size of that pump, you have already pumped more water
from her body than could be contained in a cylinder 4 feet in diameter and
6 feet high."
The engineer says: "I think she's sitting in a puddle."
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
-- P. Erdos
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A meeting is an event at which the
minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
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