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Who is the happier man: he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? -Hunter S. Thompson

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. -Anatole France

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. -Woodrow Wilson

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. -Dan Quayle

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. -J. R. R. Tolkien

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook