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| #7861 | | Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
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| #7862 | | Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"
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| #7863 | | Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.
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| #7864 | | Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| #7865 | | Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
-- Victor Hugo
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| #7866 | | Fess: Well, you must admit there is something innately humorous about
a man chasing an invention of his own halfway across the galaxy.
Rod: Oh yeah, it's a million yuks, sure. But after all, isn't that the
basic difference between robots and humans?
Fess: What, the ability to form imaginary constructs?
Rod: No, the ability to get hung up on them.
-- Christopher Stasheff, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself"
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| #7867 | | Flattery is like cologne -- to be smelled, but not swallowed.
-- Josh Billings
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| #7868 | | For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be
always old-fashioned.
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| #7869 | | For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
-- Harrison
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| #7870 | | For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
-- R. Clopton
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