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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl. — Jennifer Niven

The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort — Ulf Wolf

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications. — Buzz Aldrin

The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear - the simplification that distorts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. — Oswald Chambers

What was "grokking"? He had been using the word for a week - and he didn't grok it. — Robert A. Heinlein

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. — Bill Gates

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter

Very poor speaker," said the King. "You may go," said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court. — Lewis Carroll