"The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.129
“Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.”
“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."”

Source : "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.
“How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?”
“I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.”
“Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. Itâ€™s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.”

Source : "Sex-trafficking survivor: The truth about Super Bowl and sex" by Annie Lobert, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2015.
“Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.”
“Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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