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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on mystery
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"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

Proverb on airplane and aviation
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Adams, Douglas on service
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Adams, Douglas on responsibility
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

Proverb on effort
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"From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor."

Proverb on ancestry
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"It is better to finish something than begin."

Proverb on goals    Share

"Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills."

Proverb on law and lawyers    Share

"Where the law is uncertain there is no law."

Proverb on law and lawyers    Share

"Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."

Proverb on life
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"Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time."

Ballard, J. G. on computers    Share

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on laughter
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"Everything begins with an idea."

Nightingale, Earl on ideas
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"A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver."

Koysis, Ted on ideas
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"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking."

Jarman, Derek on sex    Share

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on certainty
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"In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain."

Pliny The Elder on certainty
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"I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home."

Olsen, Kenneth on computers    Share

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Watson, Thomas J. on computers    Share

"I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."

Stronstrup, Bjarne on computers
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters."

Farmers Almanac on computers
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"A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster."

Esber, Edward on management
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"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer."

Unknown, Source on computers    Share

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

Chin, Jerry on adversity
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"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end."

Whitney, Bert on adversity    Share

"These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer."

Jarman, Derek on names    Share

"The real death of America will come when everyone is alike."

Ellison, James T. on diversity    Share

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on diversity
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"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."

Kennedy, Robert F. on diversity    Share

"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error."

Weisert on computers
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"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation."

Taylor, Sid on wisdom
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"If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame."

Unknown, Source on blame
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