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(1709—1784), writer
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
(345—420), "On the Epistle to the Ephesians," ca. 420 A.D.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
(345—420), Attack on Jovinian
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Critisizing Microsoft in his younger days:
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absoultely no taste. And what that means is, I don't mean it in a small way I mean it in a big way. In a sense that they, they don't think […]
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's totally true, and the reason is because it's so hard, that if you don't, any rational person would give up. It's really hard, and you have to do it over a sustained period of […]
When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. […]
(1916—1981), president of the University of South Carolina, in Wall Street Journal, 1975.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.