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“Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.” — James Bryant Conant

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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot

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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” — Aristotle

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“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein

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“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.” — Warren Buffett

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“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” — Albert Einstein

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“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” — Brian Kernighan

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“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” — Epicurus

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

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