"Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune."

-- Henry Fielding

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“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.”
“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.”
“Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."”

Source : Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.14, Courier Corporation
“To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.”
“I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.”
“I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.”
“How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What are you looking at?â€ she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.”

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