Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
-- Victor Hugo

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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
-- James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)

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𝘧𝘰𝘨𝘣𝘰𝘸

#photography #fogbow

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan

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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes)

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert

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Try to keep in good health. You will do so better if you avoid doctors, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy, which has produced as many books as remedies.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

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The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, 'lasagna code'. Too many layers.
-- Roberto Waltman

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When we want to incentivize rich people, we give them money. When we want to incentivize poor people, we take it away.
-- Anonymous

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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
-- Werner Heisenberg

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Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
-- Fred Rogers

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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise.
-- Homer

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The incompetence of miscreants is the salvation of mankind.
-- Will Saletan

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
-- Emo Philips

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Evidence decays over time.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde

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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
-- Camille Paglia (Arion (winter 2004))

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Sunset ride across Saint George Sound through patches of dense coastal fog. Viz down to 100' at times. Dramatic visuals, including a rare (for me) white rainbow, aka #seadog or #fogbow. #florida #winter #fog https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjC1dJD