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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
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A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Source: Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998) -
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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