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The church is near but the road is icy,
the bar is far away but I will walk carefully.
-- Russian Proverb
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards,
specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of
rise per foot of run. A compromise, I imagine...
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
-- John Muir
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The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity;
the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a
military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and
private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion;
and the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes
who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity.
-- Edward Gibbons, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when they fill out a
job application.
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes
is when he fills out a job application form.
-- Stanley J. Randall
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The clothes have no emperor.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, commenting on ADA.
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