| Linux People: 533 of 1231 |
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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| Linux People: 534 of 1231 |
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be
coming up it.
-- Henry Allen
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| Linux People: 535 of 1231 |
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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| Linux People: 536 of 1231 |
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
-- George Santayana
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| Linux People: 537 of 1231 |
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
-- Aeschylus
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| Linux People: 538 of 1231 |
It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he
holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who
is there, but speed him when he wishes.
-- Homer, "The Odyssey"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to scheduling.]
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| Linux People: 539 of 1231 |
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| Linux People: 540 of 1231 |
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without
your help.
-- Miss Manners
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| Linux People: 541 of 1231 |
It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because
if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.
-- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
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| Linux People: 542 of 1231 |
It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.
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