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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

When I got tenure, a committee member remarked that I had carefully ignored all the recommendations the P&T committee made about my research during the pre-tenure reviews, and it seemed to have worked out ok.
And, hey, I got a Bujold quote straight up! Dood.

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