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Change
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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.
-Anon., Apple Computer ad
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Character
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Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Among the many attributions found for this: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andre Maurois, Charles Reade, Buddist Proverb, Samuel Smiles, James Allen, George D. Boardman, and Francis E. Willard
-Anon., attributed to various sources
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Chocolate
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There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.
-Anon.
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Christianity
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I am always amused by Christians who try so very hard to defend their position with reason and logic. They are like standing on top of a ladder with their tools and gadgets, straining their necks looking skywards for the leaks, trying to fix the roof amidst the rain. What they do not realize, of course, is that the roof isn't leaking -- it isn't there.
-Anon.
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Coffee (or Tea)
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Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
-Anon., (The Women's Petition Against Coffee), 1674
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Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.
-Anon.
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Coffee, n. break fluid.
-Anon.
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Color
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While walking in a toy store
The day before today,
I overheard a Crayon Box
With many things to say.
I don't like red! said Yellow.
And Green said, Nor do I!
And no one here likes Orange,
But no one knows quite why.
We are a box of crayons
that really doesn't get along,
Said Blue to all the others.
Something here is wrong!
Well, i bought that box of crayons
And took it home with me
And laid out all the crayons
So the crayons could all see
They watched me as I colored
With Red and Blue and Green
And Black and White and Orange
And every color in between
They watched as Green became the grass
And Blue became the sky.
The Yellow sun was shining bright
On White clouds drifting by.
Colors changing as they touched,
Becoming something new.
They watched me as I colored.
They watched till I was through.
And when I'd finally finished,
I began to walk away.
And as I did the Crayon box
Had something more to say...
I do like Red! said the Yellow
And Green said, So do I!
And Blue you are terrific!
So high up in the sky.
We are a Box of Crayons
Each of us unique,
But when we get together
The picture is complete.
-Anon., Box Of Crayons (Original Author Unknown)
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Ditch your white panties for yellow ones. Sounds crazy, but color theorists say your body absorbs the vibration of colors, which, in turn, affects your brain and can actually alter your mood. Yellow connects us.
Number 1 among 15 recommendations to achieve
-Anon., "Fitness magazine"
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Commitment
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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
-Anon.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
this is commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Shearson Lehman (American Express) or anon.
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Computers
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Where the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons.
-Anon., "Popular Mechanics", March, 1949
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At the dictation of a mathematician, it will solve in a matter of hours equations never before solved because of their intricacy and the enormous time and personnel which would be required to work them out on ordinary office calculators.
-Anon., New York Times, 1944
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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
-Anon.
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
-Anon.
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
-Anon.
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Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
-Anon.
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If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
-Anon.
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Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.
-Anon.
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The Next Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
-Anon.
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What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
-Anon.
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
-Anon.
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
-Anon.
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Consulting
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Consultants get paid to tell clients what they already know.
-Anon., (aphorism)
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Conversation
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
-Anon.
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Books by and about Anon.