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• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• He wrecked his car, he lost his job. And yet throughout his life, he took his troubles like a ma
  he blamed them on his wife. -- Frank Conno...
• If he had half a brain, his ass would be lopsided.
• B'Ijik: "Greetings, Captain. I regret to inform you that Gowron and the High Council are quite busy and won't be able to speak with you today.
  Picard: "Is Gowron aware that we have been transmitting messages for the past three days?...
• God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come
  for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be carele...
• Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
  -- Whately...
• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point.
  ..and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point....
• Harry constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism.
  No matter how bad the situation, he would always say, "Well, it could have been worse....