“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
“is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
“Words can be sweetly encouraging or downright dirty, but they are almost always a powerful aphrodisiac. –Dr. Ruth”
“Ask the question. Always ask the question, never assume.”
“Nearly everyone who sees you complains,” he says. “Nearly? There are some people who don’t complain?” I ask. “I was being nice. Everyone who sees you complains,” he says. That can’t be true.”
“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. –B.F. Skinner”
“I shut the door firmly behind me. I shut it on Jensen, but I can’t shut it on myself and on the strange and foreign feelings churning inside.”
“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. –Richard Feynman”
“He laughs. “Why does she do that?” “The world may never know.”
“Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary.”
“you can always find something you want.”
“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.”
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