"The Radio Amateur never knowingly uses the air for his own
amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others."
--
ARRL Radio Amateur Code
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"The heights of great men reached and kept,
were not attained by sudden flight;
but they, while others slept,
were toiling onward in the night."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are.
If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
-- Richard Feynman
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"At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45
they are caves in which we hide."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"When you cannot express [it] in numbers,
your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
-- William Thomson
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists."
-- Bertrand Russell
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"The question is not, 'Can they [animals] reason?' nor,
'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'"
-- Jeremy Bentham
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"A person's success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum."
-- Donald Knuth
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Some of my projects:
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Why did we endure such expense and risk? For the excitement of the body that was
adventure, and the more enduring excitement of the mind that was discovery.
--
Summertime on Icarus, Arthur C. Clarke
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"Much has been gained if we succeed in turning your
hysterical misery into common unhappiness."
-- Sigmund Freud
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A friend who's in liquor production,
has a still of astounding construction.
The alcohol boils
through old magnet coils.
He says that it's proof by induction.
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BoredPanda.com
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I wrestle with cardboard, I struggle with foil,
I pluck at tiny tabs until my blood begins to boil.
And when I'm all for giving up, and I'm at my wits end,
I see those nasty, spiteful words
OPEN OTHER END.
--
Mark Adjan
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You, sir, are drunk.
"And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober."
-- Winston Churchill
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"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later."
--
Mary Bly
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"There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do."
--
Jerome K. Jerome
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