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Desmond Llewelyn quote: "What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

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I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. Pee Wee Reese
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. Henry David Thoreau
Tom Robbins quote: "You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up."
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up. Tom Robbins
There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means- either will do- the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are... Benjamin Franklin
Timothy Leary quote: "You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary
Pedro Calderon de la Barca quote: "When love is not madness, it is not love."
When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Allen Ginsberg quote: "A naked lunch is natural to us. We eat reality sandwiches. But..."
A naked lunch is natural to us. We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. Barber Conable
... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given. Jane Austen
Martha Plimpton quote: "Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not..."
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. Martha Plimpton
No mention of that local hunt, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous smile, "but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed. Arthur Conan Doyle
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. Stephen F. Lynch
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz
Paulo Coelho quote: "I have learned to suffer in silence."
I have learned to suffer in silence. Paulo Coelho
Bob Hope quote: "Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued."
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. Bob Hope