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Clever Things People Say - 18
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Homer, The Iliad
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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Tellis Frank
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
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Joseph Rickaby
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
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Marcus Terentius Varro
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
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Socrates
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Larry Wall
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
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Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Rossella Camerlingo
Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours.
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Kahlil Gibran
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
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