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#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
– California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract"
#3528. The law respects form less than substance.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3533. The law disregards trifles.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.
– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.
– Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

– e. e. cummings
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

– e.e. cummings
(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.
– Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
(Miele) really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thrill out of them than I have out of any piece of high tech in years.
– Steve Jobs
(Of Jesus): "A parish demogogue."
– Shelley (Queen Mab)
(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble.
– Hack Wilson
(Think of one's self as a teakettle) Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to sing.
– Unknown
* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
*We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
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– Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."
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5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually.

– from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936
1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
– Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
1. Never tell everything at once.
– Ken Venturi
100 invested at 7 percent interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
– Lazarus Long
148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man).
– Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
– Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
– Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.
– Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
25. The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
– Sorin Cerin
80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.
– Lawrence Peter Berra
90 percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
– William J. O'Neil
?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.
– Mahabharata
?Tis those who reverence the old That are the men versed in the Faith; Worthy of praise while in this life, And happy in the life to come.
– Buddhist

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