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Edit 3421
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Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
-- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
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Edit 3422
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Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
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Edit 3423
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Generic Fortune.
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Edit 3424
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Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
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Edit 3425
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Genetics explains why you look like your father,
and if you don't, why you should.
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Edit 3426
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GENIUS:
Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right
time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying
all the right things to all the right people.
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Edit 3427
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Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
-- Owen Meredith
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Edit 3428
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Alva Edison
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Edit 3429
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Genius is pain.
-- John Lennon
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Edit 3430
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Genius is ten percent inspiration and fifty percent capital gains.
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Edit 3431
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Edit 3432
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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Edit 3433
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Genius, n.:
A chemist who discovers a laundry additive that rhymes with
"bright".
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Edit 3434
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Genlock, n.:
Why he stays in the bottle.
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Edit 3435
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Gentlemen,
Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach
to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying
with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and
thence by dispatch to our headquarters.
We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all
manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Government holds me accountable.
I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer.
Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable
exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted
for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous
confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness
may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a
fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of
my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand
why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it
must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either
one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both:
1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit
of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance:
2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.
-- Duke of Wellington, to the British Foreign Office,
London, 1812
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Edit 3436
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Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.
-- Secretary of State Henry Stimson, on closing down
the Black Chamber, the precursor to the National
Security Agency.
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Edit 3437
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Genuine happiness is when a wife sees a double chin on her husband's
old girl friend.
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Edit 3438
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Type 0
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George Bernard Shaw once sent two tickets to the opening night of one of
his plays to Winston Churchill with the following note:
"Bring a friend, if you have one."
Churchill wrote back, returning the two tickets and excused himself as he
had a previous engagement. He also attached the following:
"Please send me two tickets for the next night, if there is one."
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Edit 3439
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Type 0
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George Orwell 1984. Northwestern 0.
-- Chicago Reader 10/15/82
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Edit 3440
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George Orwell was an optimist.
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