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«The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Errors
| Keywords:
difference, get at, goes, go wrong, impossible, major, majors, might, out to, possibly, repair, repairing, repairs, repair to, the majors, turns, usually
«Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.»
Author: Tim Berners-Lee
(Physicist)
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attractive, data, design, get at, sites, ultimately, users, web
«The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Violence,
War
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Art of War, get at, strike hard, The Art of War
«What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.»
«Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.»
«Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find - nothing.»
«They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?»
«The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Humor,
Life
| Keywords:
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«Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
get at, iconoclasm, rough
«There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other»
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