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• There is a limit to the admiration we may hold for a man who spends his waking hours poking the contents of chickens with a stick.
  -- Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume...
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
  -- Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde...
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• I'm a forgotten man in his (Bobby Robson's) mind.
• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him.
  There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will...
• hrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....