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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
_ Edmund Burke.
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." (And at the worst possible time.)
Murphy's Law
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
~George Orwell
A Guy
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free
with my breakfast cereal."
-- Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
~J. W. Schopf
A Guy
I was born at a very young age.
-George Burns