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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

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If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring."

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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

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To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

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There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.

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