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    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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    "FINAGLE'S RESEARCH RULE #1: Do not believe in miracles...rely on them."
    Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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    "Luck favors the prepared."
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeT View Post
    "Luck favors the prepared."
    -- Edna Mode
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    "FINAGLE'S RESEARCH RULE #1: Do not believe in miracles...rely on them."
    Asimov styled all things of that sort as corollaries of Finagle's General Law of Dynamic Negativity; things like "anything that can go wrong, will", "constants aren't and variables don't", etc. They're always good for a chuckle and then a reflective "hmm.. that's actually true."
    I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it.

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    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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    Progressivism : Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
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    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring ― Marilyn Monroe

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