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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
-- Clifton Fadiman
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1087 of 2298 |
One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1088 of 2298 |
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens
without laughing.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1089 of 2298 |
One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1090 of 2298 |
One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1091 of 2298 |
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from
one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70
percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course,
simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good,
nobody can touch him.
-- John Gardner, NYT Book Review, Jan. 1983
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1092 of 2298 |
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an
advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from
mathematics.
-- N. Wiener
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1093 of 2298 |
One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old
enough to give you presents they make at school.
-- Robert Byrne
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1094 of 2298 |
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything
unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
-- Joyce Carol Oates
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Freebsd Fortunes 5: 1095 of 2298 |
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant
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