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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exqui

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humankind

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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Humankind

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham

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design