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Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean
A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
-- Henry Ford
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
-- James Thurber
"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)
So where are all the lust-crazed engineering groupies that my college recruiter talked about ?
-- James Knowles
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
-- James Madison
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
-- Henry Kissinger
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau
A age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener ("Space")
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
Do just once what others say you can't do,
and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
-- James R. Cook
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
Writing novice-friendly documentation is a lot of work. We'd like to do it someday. Holding of breath is not advised.
-- Henry Spencer
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams
"Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence."
-- Henry Seidel Canby (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)