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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.-- Samuel Johnson
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."-- Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.-- Samuel Johnson
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.-- Lyndon B Johnson
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.-- Samuel Beckett
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."
-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)
Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.-- Samuel Goldwyn
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.-- Samuel Butler
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.-- Samuel Butler
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
"The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-westerners never do."-- Samuel P. Huntington
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy