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Eric Nicol

Very little is known about the War …

24 Mar , 2011  

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Nicol ,

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Dan Quayle

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle…

24 Mar , 2011  

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. Great short quote and quotation by: Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) , US Republican […]

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Waste no more time talking about gr…

15 Feb , 2011  

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus , Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 AD)

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We act as though comfort and luxury…

15 Feb , 2011  

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

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Charles Kingsley

We act as though comfort and luxury…

15 Feb , 2011  

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

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John Locke

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue – the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. Great short quote and quotation by: John Locke , English empiricist philosopher (1632 – 1704)

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We are a spectacular, splendid mani…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Great short quote and quotation by: […]

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Jimmy Buffett

We are the people our parents warne…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are the people our parents warned us about. Great short quote and quotation by: Jimmy Buffett ,

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are what we pretend to be, so we…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ,

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We become what we think about all d…

15 Feb , 2011  

We become what we think about all day long. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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We cannot be too earnest, too persi…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,

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Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"

We have come through a strange cycl…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]

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