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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
machines noise laundry
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead. David Sedaris
machines body female
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. Camille Paglia
machines found persons
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person. Cathy Guisewite
machines atm cash
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to. Bill Janklow
machines artificial-intelligence artificial
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies. Astro Teller
machines way instinct
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Bertrand Russell
machines surprise programming
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing
machines littles chess
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. Bobby Fischer
machines language assembly
I started out with machine code and assembly language. Charles Petzold
today lasts next
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. Alan Perlis
today politics tomorrow
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. Al Sharpton
today problem gender
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
today states form
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today. David Graeber
today
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself. Byron Katie
today year
We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.
today intention literal
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense. Edward Gorey
today wonder
Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time. Loretta Young
today bread enough
Bread for today is bread enough. Edward McKendree Bounds