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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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