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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.


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Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.



Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.



Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.



If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.



You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.



You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.



All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.



He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum



The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.



You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.





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Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.



I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.



The transitional period was tough, I won't kid you. You go from a certain family dynamic to adjusting to a completely new one. It took a few months for us all to fi nd our feet.

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I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.



Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?



We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.



I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.



With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.



Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.



When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.




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