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Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.
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Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
-- motto of the Christopher Society
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Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
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Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-- Jeff Cooper
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Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay,
left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a
bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort
pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow.
Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin
equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the
destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both
Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other
planets, this may be the first message received from us.
-- The Realist, November, 1964.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 372 of 2182 |
Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only stands a law degree.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 373 of 2182 |
Between infinite and short there is a big difference.
-- G.H. Gonnet
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to system service dispatching.]
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BEWARE! People acting under the influence of human nature.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 376 of 2182 |
Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.
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