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Get it over with

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W.C. Fields

Outdoors

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

Will Durst

Lost in translation

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

Patience

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

– Margaret Thatcher

Progress

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

– Robert A. Heinlein

Bridges

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

– David Russell

Religion

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

What would we do about it?

Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?

Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.

Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, but if we weren't men?

– Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Nigel Kneale

 

On Ambition

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

– Edgar Bergen

Easier

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

– Andy Rooney

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