A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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