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When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you hold the hammer with both hands.
-- Leibowitz's Rule...
When have the Prophets not been stoned, from Christ down to Wagner?
Crazy, enthusiastic, or madmen all of them.... Why, my dear friend, what do you mean by complaining of neglect, abuse, scorn?...
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
-- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne...
When he first came to work at the development center, Ninjei was assigned to support the operating system.
One day a manager came into Ninjei's cubicle. "Why are you not working?" asked the manager....
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...
When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
-- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Spring it is cheery...
When helping with this problem, please flame me good so that others will learn from my brazen irresponsibility.
-- Russell Earnest (re4@prism.gatech.edu)...
When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
-- Willia...
When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said
"Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone." ...

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