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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. -- Thale
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
-- Theodore H. White...
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong.
The next most distressing thing is to be proved right....
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes.
We shall see them doing so upon our television sets. -- C.P. Snow...
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
-- Brian Kernighan [1978]...
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
-- Plato (BC 427?-347?)...
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. -- Franklin P. Jone
The most egotistical person we've ever heard of is the one who remarked that he had only been wrong once in his life and that was when he thought he was wrong but wasn't.
The most enjoyable form of sex education is the Braille method.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" (I found it) but "That's funny .
.." -- Isaac Asimov...

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