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Success and Failure
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Also in: Love and Hate} Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. [Select] A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. [Select] This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live. [Select] He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. [Select] I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution. [Select] Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. [Select] Werner von Braun {Also in: Science and Religion} Why be a man when you can be a success? [Select] All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) {Also in: Science and Religion} Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward. [Select] Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. [Select] Fred Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month [Shop] A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. [Select] When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. [Select] An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. [Select] Nicholas Murray Butler {Also in: Science and Religion} All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. [Select] It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. [Select] Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. [Select] Albert Camus {Also in: Law and Politics}
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