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I have a LibreOffice document of my favorite quotes that I have gathered over the years (actually, more like decades). An excerpt from the first page follows ...

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It's quite conceivable that humanity is a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.
--- Geoffrey Hinton

I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years. --- Bill Gates Remarks at COMDEX (November 1994),

Source: quotepark.com

"Teamwork makes the dreams work."
--- Dalen Spratt

"Fame in show business is not in proportion to actual achievement."
--- Peter Deuel

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
--- Edmund Burke

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
-- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical_Essays, 1928

"polyfocal blend of functional skills"

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
--- Pete Seeger

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
--- William Inge

Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
--- Adolphe A. Berle Jr.

I'm always looking, like a child, for the wonders I know I'm going to find, not every time, but every once in a while.
--- Richard Feynman

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-14 02:03 AM | Reply

@#1

That's page 1 of 38 ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-14 02:05 AM | Reply

Page 2 ...

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"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
--- Bullwinkle Moose

The guilty dog barks the loudest.
--- old Southern political saying

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.
--- John Lawton

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
--- Thomas Jefferson

ECREE: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
--- Carl Sagan

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
--- George Orwell

Total Inability To Support Usual Performance

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your original intent was to drain the swamp.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
---Abraham Lincoln

Our faith in others betrays in what respect we would like to have faith in ourselves.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

One often attacks and makes an enemy in order to conceal that one is open to attack.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

If you have a suffering friend, be a resting place for his suffering, but a hard bed as it were, a field cot: thus will you profit him best.

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#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-14 02:17 AM | Reply

fwiw...

The document originally began as a WordStar document back in the days of CP/M.

Then it was converted to MS Word, and then, a couple three decades ago, to LibreOffice.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-14 02:55 AM | Reply

Page 24 ...

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Don't count the days, make the days count.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Carl Sagan

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
- Ansel Adams

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
- Charles, Prince of Wales

There's always room for improvement, you know --- it's the biggest room in the house.
- Louise Heath Leber

A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
- Norman Douglas

When a man sits with a pretty lady for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
- Adlai E Stevenson

I have noticed that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
- Lionel Abel

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men.
- Mortimer Adler

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
- Shana Alexander

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

A neat house has an uninteresting person in it.
- Enid Nemy

Hindsight is an exact science.
- Guy Bellamy

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.
-Bernard Berenson

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J Boorstin

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
- Jim Bishop

Progress grows out of motion.
- Richard E Byrd

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
- Norman Cousins

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
- John Foster Dulles

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
-Paul Engle

Believe those who are seeking truth; doubt those who find it.
- Andr Gide

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Robert Grudin

People change and forget to tell each other.
- Lillian Hellman

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
- Harper Lee

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
- Phillip Moffitt

A man is not finished when he is defeated, he is finished when he quits.
- Richard M Nixon

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
- Bob Packwood

To achieve you need thought... You have to know what you are doing, and that's real power.
- Ayn Rand

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
- Jean Renoir

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
- Leonard Rubinstein

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
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#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-14 03:00 AM | Reply

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