Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Books are the shoes with which we tread the footsteps of great minds. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Hatch a dream and then believe it. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Dancing is silent poetry. Dancing is silent poetry. A clever man commits no minor blunders. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. God, please save me from your followers! Facts are the enemy of truth. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. I would have made a good Pope. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.Love is the beauty of the soul. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Who so loves believes the impossible. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. Facts are the enemy of truth. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. No elected body is the country, we are the country. You and me. Us. It can only stay that way as long as we care to keep it so. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Who so loves believes the impossible. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. I would have made a good Pope. The quality of the moment is more important than the number of our days. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. God, please save me from your followers! The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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