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Yes, he's not exactly my kind of guy. But the quote fits.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
  —Henry Ward Beecher from " The American Flag"

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Always forgive your enemies. Seldom does anything annoy them more.

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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
  —attributed to Flannery O'Connor

Copyright Video

Both amusing and true.

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Body language is the universal tongue.

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I wasn't a big fish in a little pond; more like a goldfish in a Dixie cup.
—Anonymous (from "VGA Blues" in Off The Record at InfoWorld)

You can read the whole thing here: http://weblog.infoworld.com/offtherecord/archives/2007/05/vga_blues.html

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The noblest revenge is forgiveness.

P.S.
Sorry about the duplicate yesterday. It's been removed.

Web Follies

Weird and dorky. Always a winning combination:
http://dailyamerican.com/articles/2007/05/16/weird/weird903.txt

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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
  —G.K. Chesterton

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Indolent philosopher: Mr. I can't.

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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
  —Brian Kernighan

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A bachelor is a guy with no wife expectancy.

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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
  —Albert Einstein

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A good way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

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When you are wrong, change. When you are right, try to be easy to live with.

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Fortune favors the prepared mind.
  —Louis Pasteur (or at least attributed to him)

Latin Phrase

Carpe Per Diem -- Seize the Pay

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"Know thy enemy" might be as critical as "Know thyself". They often overlap.
  —Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Seen in the Wild

They cannot admit it because they won't reveal a secret (being infuriatingly English: they probably eat those horrid cucumber sandwiches too).

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The only time clients truly listen to advice is when you’re telling them how to avoid paying tax.
  —Dennis Howlett

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Intelligence reports say he Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

  —from Ronald Reagan's presidential diaries, Wed. Feb. 11 (but I don't know what year)

You can find more in snippets being published by Vanity Fair (and no, I don't normally look there!):

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/reagan200706

Seen in the Wild

You should never write code for yourself. The customer becomes too aware of the internals of your software and starts making really absurd demands.

Pyromania (video)

Neat stuff.

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The argument that we just have to support the lesser of two evils to avoid destruction is merely a formula by which evil is perpetuated and men and measures that are not evil and driven into perpetual exile.
--Sam Francis