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Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore… — Robert Ringer
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities… — Richardson Wright
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to… — Herbert Newton Casson
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on… — Al Arbour
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the… — John Carmack
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how… — Edsger Dijkstra
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof… — Ronald Graham
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. — Rosamund Pike
Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its… — Robert Tarjan
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases… — Warren Buffett
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph.… — Warren Buffett
We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors. — Thurston Moore
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be… — William Faulkner
We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But… — Eric Hoffer
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going… — Adyashanti
...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the… — Pope Clement XIII
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. — Robert Bresson
The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is… — Robert Fulghum

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