On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan
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Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
-- Hubert Reeves
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Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
-- Helen Keller
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Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty.
-- Steven Johnson (Wired Nov 2002)
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
-- Lao Tzu
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One day or day one. You decide.
-- Anonymous
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This is my voice, my weapon of choice.
-- Grace Jones (This is Life/Hurricane)
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
-- Hannibal Barca ((circa 247-183 BCE))
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If we horde and hide what we love, we can still lose it. Only then, we're alone in the loss
-- Seth Radley (The Broccoli Tree)
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A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner.
-- English Proverb
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The Colorado River Basin has operated in the red for most of the 21st century. Experts call for broad water cuts, now.
Water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the basin’s two largest reservoirs, could fall to less than 4 million acre-feet of available water if the river’s flows and water demands are repeated next year, according to a report released Thursday by a team of Colorado River water experts.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
-- M. C. Escher
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#Body in #Truck Found After #LakePowell Drops 20 Feet
https://www.newser.com/story/374703/drought-reveals-truck-human-remains-in-lake-powell.html
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
-- Ansel Adams
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
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We are dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
-- Umberto Eco
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