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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Life is short, but if you notice the way most people spend their time, you would suppose that life was everlasting.
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As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.
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The great desire of my life is to amuse somebody. I had rather be able to set the multiplication table to some lively tune than to have been the author of it.
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Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
Steve Ballmer
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Born:
April 21, 1818
Died:
October 14, 1885
(aged 67)
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