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  It is much better to read only the advertisements of your work and to note, briefly, your royalty reports....
• Smile. It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money
  he second that you have something to say that you think the world should know...
• We're programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand.
  We're not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds....
• Whether your think you can do a thing or not do a thing is immaterial, because in either instance, you are correct.
• Michelle: You should be chief. Fry: What do I need, ulcers?
• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.
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• Although you should not bite your fingernails, when you do, it avoids being called on by friends to scratch their back.
• The first phrase that need to be taught when teaching a new language is how to say "Do you speak English?
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