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In any problem, if you find yourself doing an infinite amount of work, the answer may be obtained by inspection. [computers/411]
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But then it's a bit odd to think that declaring something int could actually slow down the program, if it ended up forcing more conversions back to string. -- Larry Wall in <
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. [people/169]
about 2 hours ago
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Recent investments will yield a slight profit. [work/355]
about 3 hours ago
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In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. -- Mikhail Bakunin [anarchism/556]
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The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things. -- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch" [pratchett/1]
about 5 hours ago
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If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard. -- Edward Holyoke [education/83]
about 6 hours ago
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Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things. [fortunes/152]
about 7 hours ago
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Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. -- Emerson, "Society and Solitude" [drugs/8]
about 8 hours ago
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He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. [work/128]
about 9 hours ago
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Most people's favorite way to end a game is by winning. [sports/89]
about 10 hours ago
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Demand the establishment of the government in its rightful home at Disneyland. [politics/82]
about 11 hours ago
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"It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh) [linuxcookie/46]
about 12 hours ago
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. -- Sigmund Freud [people/410]
about 13 hours ago
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw [drugs/7]
about 14 hours ago
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -- Oscar Wilde [anarchism/783]
about 15 hours ago
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The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things. -- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch" [pratchett/1]
about 16 hours ago
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George Orwell was an optimist. [politics/132]
about 17 hours ago
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Debian Hint #5: If you need to build a custom kernel, use the 'make-kpkg' script found in the kernel-package package. [debian-hints/4]
about 18 hours ago
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Reinhart was never his mother's favorite -- and he was an only child. -- Thomas Berger [kids/107]
about 19 hours ago
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-) -- Larry Wall in <
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about 20 hours ago
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" -- Vroomfondel [education/186]
about 21 hours ago
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer. -- Montesquieu [law/169]
about 22 hours ago
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Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. -- Dag Hammarskjold [wisdom/59]
about 23 hours ago
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Take time to reflect on all the things you have, not as a result of your merit or hard work or because God or chance or the efforts of other people have given them to you. [work/393]
1 day ago
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I'll give you a definite maybe. -Samuel Goldwyn [paradoxum/9]
1 day ago
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<|ryan|> I don't use deb <netgod> u poor man <Disconnect> netgod: heh <Kingsqueak> apt-get install task-p0rn [debian/60]
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No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working. -- Bob Black [anarchism/92]
1 day ago
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Television -- the longest amateur night in history. -- Robert Carson [art/312]
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This fortune is encrypted -- get your decoder rings ready! [goedel/39]
1 day ago
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I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. -- Golfer Bobby Jones on being told that it was 105 degrees in the shade. [sports/59]
1 day ago
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Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler [science/126]
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Punning is the worst vice, and there's no vice versa. [miscellaneous/435]
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What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love. -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 [startrek/199]
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<cas> Mercury: gpm isn't a very good web browser. fix it. [knghtbrd/335]
1 day ago
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Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click". [fortunes/176]
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. -- G. B. Shaw [ethnic/110]
1 day ago
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"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh) [linuxcookie/82]
1 day ago
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While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else. [people/1131]
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[art/469]
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Remember, DESSERT is spelled with two `s's while DESERT is spelled with one, because EVERYONE wants two desserts, but NO ONE wants two deserts. -- Miss Oglethorp, Gr. 5, PS. 59 [food/129]
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Yow! Is my fallout shelter termite proof? [zippy/535]
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His heart was yours from the first moment that you met. [love/19]
2 days ago
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Neutrinos are into physicists. [science/328]
2 days ago
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Do not throw cigarette butts in the urinal, for they are subtle and quick to anger. [magic/5]
2 days ago
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Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the double lock will keep; May no brick through the window break, And, no one rob me till I awake. [songs-poems/383]
2 days ago
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Peter's hungry, time to eat lunch. [food/124]
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After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles." -- Ronnie Shakes [medicine/8]
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The meek don't want it. [work/457]
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Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids. [kids/64]
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