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ENGLISH => GENERAL => Topic started by: ஸ்ருதி on April 21, 2012, 08:12:32 AM

Title: Some Historical Observations
Post by: ஸ்ருதி on April 21, 2012, 08:12:32 AM

Knowledge without insight is like a horse in the library.
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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. --Richard Hooker
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Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
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Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
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Some people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.
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Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
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It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane. --June Henderson
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Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
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Be careful of your thoughts: They may become words at any moment.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. --Josh Billings
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New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it. --Webster's Unafraid Dictionary
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We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. --Grace Williams
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. --Rev. Larry Lorenzoni
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The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right.
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May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a Thousand Caramels.
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in. --Mark Twain
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Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
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If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. --Henny Youngman