"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.”
“Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.”
“I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.”
“Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.”
“When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”
“I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”
“We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.”
“I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.”

Source : "Historian David Irving Gets Three Years in Holocaust Denial Case", www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2006.

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