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 |  |  | #2836 |  | I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this
 country with being sick and tired.  I'm certainly not.  But I'm
 sick and tired of being told that I am.
 - Monty Python
 
 |  |  |  | #2837 |  | "There is no statute of limitations on stupidity." -- Randomly produced by a computer program called Markov3.
 
 |  |  |  | #2838 |  | There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success.
 On the other hand, don't count on it.
 - T. K. Lawson
 
 |  |  |  | #2839 |  | To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
 - William Cowper
 
 |  |  |  | #2840 |  | It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
 
 |  |  |  | #2841 |  | One may be able to quibble about the quality of a single experiment, or about the veracity of a given experimenter, but, taking all the supportive
 experiments together, the weight of evidence is so strong as readily to
 merit a wise man's reflection.
 - Professor William Tiller, parapsychologist, Standford University,
 commenting on psi research
 
 |  |  |  | #2842 |  | Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. - John Keats
 
 |  |  |  | #2843 |  | Your good nature will bring you unbounded happiness. 
 |  |  |  | #2844 |  | "Our journey toward the stars has progressed swiftly. 
 In 1926 Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-propelled rocket,
 achieving an altitude of 41 feet.  In 1962 John Glenn orbited the earth.
 
 In 1969, only 66 years after Orville Wright flew two feet off the ground
 for 12 seconds, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and I rocketed to the moon
 in Apollo 11."
 -- Michael Collins
 Former astronaut and past Director of the National Air and Space Museum
 
 |  |  |  | #2845 |  | Most people exhibit what political scientists call "the conservatism of the peasantry."  Don't lose what you've got.  Don't change.  Don't take a chance,
 because you might end up starving to death.  Play it safe.  Buy just as much
 as you need.  Don't waste time.
 
 When  we think about risk, human beings and corporations realize in their
 heads that risks are necessary to grow, to survive.  But when it comes down
 to keeping good people when the crunch comes, or investing money in
 something untried, only the brave reach deep into their pockets and play
 the game as it must be played.
 
 - David Lammers, "Yakitori", Electronic Engineering Times, January 18, 1988
 
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