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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 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
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