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The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#born #brief #changes #changing #children

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ↗

— Epictetus

#character #determine #example #follow #imagine

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right! ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#audience #feel #i #i am #just

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#imagination #misfortune #quixote

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#beginning #borrow #comes #couple #fast

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#greatest #greatest number #history #human #human mind

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. ↗

— David Hume

#additions #been #beginning #century #continual

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. ↗

— Leon Kass

#doing #engineering #enough #kinds #may