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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."-- John Updike
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.-- John Woods
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.-- John Burroughs
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.-- John Berger
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.-- John F. Kennedy
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.-- Samuel Johnson
Giving help doesn't mean dashing in and doing what seems like a good idea to you. It means doing what the other person wants. If what the person wants is for you leave them alone, it means doing that.-- John Fisher
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."-- Samuel Johnson
If you insist that you know what's right for a person, you are precious close to saying that their feelings aren't real, just because you don't understand them. The next stop after sentimentality is cruelty.-- John Fisher
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.-- Lyndon B Johnson
Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."
-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use.-- Galileo Galilei