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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. – Author Unknown

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He was a “how” thinker, not an “if” thinker. – Author Unknown

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. – Bern Williams

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

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It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. – will.i.am

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obamas extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. – David Limbaugh

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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. – Garrison Keillor

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