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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. – Stanley Kubrick

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In the practice of tolerance, ones enemy is the best teacher. – Dalai Lama

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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. – James Montgomery

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. – Niklaus Wirth

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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. – Judy Holliday

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The only prudence in life is concentration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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