It is never too late to become what you might have been.
-- George Eliot.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing but rising every time we fall.
-- Confucius
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If you think your actions are too small to make a difference, you've never been in a bed with a mosquito.
-- Unknown
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Dig the well before you are thirsty.
-- Unknown
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Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who try.
-- Unknown
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
-- Unknown
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The fox fears not the man who boasts by night but the man who rises early in the morning.
-- Gary Player
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Simplify the problem until it goes away and then work backwards from your assumptions.
-- Unknown
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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.
-- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE in King Lear
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
-- Winston Churchill
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Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.
-- Daniel Boorstin
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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% 'preparation'.
-- Shruti Srivastava
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-- Neils Bohr
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Success is having options.
-- unknown
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Wisdom is not doing something rash.
-- unknown
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When I want an attorny's opinion, I'll give it to him.
-- unknown
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Proffesionals aren't.
-- unknown
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change"
-- Charles Darwin
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"You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war."
-- unknown
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“When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.”
Bill Gorton: "How did you go bankrupt?"
Mike Campbell: "Gradually, and then suddenly."
--Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
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"I have often wondered whether in India it is the roads which have
holes in
them or the holes which have roads."
--Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, while unveiling the Rs 60,000 crore
all-weather national road project
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But at some point, proportionality will return to U.S. relations with South Asia and America will re-tilt toward India. For in the grand geopolitical scheme of things, the world's second-most-populated nation is to Pakistan as Hertz is to Dollar Rent-a-Car
--Tom Plate, Syndicated columnist. The Seattle Times
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Beware! All expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.
--Swami Vivekananda
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
--Oscar Wilde
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"
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Money brings some happiness.
But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
-- Neil Simon
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
-- Unknown
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
--Rabindranath Tagore
Added on August 15 2002.
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The question of whether computers can think is like the
question of whether submarines can swim.
This is no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity.
-anonymous.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth
-Lillian Hellman, { The Little Foxes}
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Only as high as I can reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I
go
Only as deep as I look can
I see
Only as much as I dream.
can I be
-Unknown
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Action is the anecdote to despair.
-Joan Biaz, Reader's Digest{May, 1997}
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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disaster to confuse them.
-Madeleine L`Engle, {An Acceptable Time}
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Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. Paul Simon,
-Reader's Digest{June, 1997}
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Simulations are doomed to succeed.
-R. A. Brooks (from Terry Huntsberger)
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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
-Michael Eisner, Reader's Digest{Aug 97}
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without
it.
-G. K. Chesterton, {The Man Who was Orthodox}
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The Four Donkeys of the Apocalypse:
Ignorance, Stupidity, Fear and Greed.
Then there are the four managers of the Apocalypse:
Dilbert, Wally, Alice and Dogbert.
-Seen on comp.software-eng.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder
-Ralph W. Sockman. {Now to Live!}Reader's Digest{Feb 98}
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People seldom become famous for what the say until after they are famous
for what they've done.
-Quotable Quotes, Readers' Digest{Feb, 98}
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In Japan we have a phrase {shoshin}, which means ``beginners mind.''
This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a
ready mind.
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open
to everything.
In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert's
mind
there are few.
-Shunryu Suzuki {Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind}
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand"
- R.P. Feynman
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So far as laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And
so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-Albert Einstein.
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-J. K. Rowling
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Real communications happens when people feel safe.
-Ken Blanchard, The heart of a leader.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
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``I hear, I forget
I see, I remember
I do, I understand.''
- purported Chinese proverb.
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981
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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
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"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?".
- A.Einstein
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'Tis better to have loved
and lost
Than never to have loved
at all.
-Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
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The supreme happines of life is the conviction that we are loved.
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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He who dies with the most toys wins
-unknown
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Put all your eggs in one basket - and watch the basket very carefully
-Warren Buffett (arguably, the world's greatest investor)
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I dont have a problem with people who fail - but with people who are content
with their failure.
-A Lincoln.
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When the going gets tough .. the tough takes a break.
-Students at ULL while doing a VLSI project, Fall'99.
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I earn more than the sum total of my bills.
-Vishnu Varma on 03/17/01
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If I die today, I will be remembered by the deeds I have done in the past
and not what my intentions were for the future - and that is scary.
