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Had I Been Present At The Creation, I Would Have Given Some Useful Hints For The Better Ordering Of The Universe.
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Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some
useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
-- Alfonso the Wise
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to operating system initialization.]
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Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.
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A place for everything and everything in its place.
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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -- T.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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