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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything y

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. – Bill Bryson

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[A]nd then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. – Bill Bryson

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. – Bill Bryson

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The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. – Elizabeth Lawrence

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In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. – James Tobin

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Any knowledge that doesnt lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. – Wislawa Szymborska

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If you play it straight its funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. – Tom Hiddleston

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo

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