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En essayant continuellement, on finit par réussir. Donc plus ça rate,
plus on a de chances que ça marche. -- devise Shadok.

If one keeps trying forever, one succeeds eventually. Therefore, the
more one fails, the closer one is to success. -- Shadok motto.

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be
enthusiastic about." -- Albert Einstein

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz

"You do not really understand something unless you can
explain it to your grandmother." -- Albert Einstein

"Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne
ne veut descendre les poubelles." -- Jean Yanne

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one
thinks of changing himself." -- Tolstoï

"Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison." -- Victor Hugo

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." 
 -- Henny Youngman

"Quiconque croit que la croissance exponentielle peut continuer sans fin,
dans un monde fini, est soit un fou, soit un économiste."
 -- Kenneth Boulding, économiste

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world
is either a madman or an economist." -- Kenneth Boulding, economist

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
 -- Dave Barry

"When the winds of change are blowing, some people are
building shelters and others are building windmills."

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number.
But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit!
We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them
economical numbers." -- Richard Feynman

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology
look respectable." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize
a mistake when you make it again." -- Franklin P. Jones

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better
than we deserve." -- George Bernard Shaw, literature Nobel prize

"Nous n'héritons pas la Terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons
à nos enfants." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a
self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence -- Evelin Linder

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not
care who gets the credit." -- Harry S Truman

"La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six
milliards de petits problèmes." -- Hubert Reeves

"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this." -- Emo Phillips

"Si vous avez l'impression que vous êtes trop petit pour pouvoir changer
quelque chose, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique... et vous verrez
lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir." -- Dalaï Lama

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise,
lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness
and then is suddenly gone." -- Hodding Carter

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
 -- Douglas Adams

"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature.
Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting,
and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, 
however, is against nature and should be prohibited." -- Douglas Adams

No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone,
turn back. -- Turkish proverb

"Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas
pour que ça ne se vende plus ! " -- Coluche

"L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote." -- Pierre Desproges

Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts
avoiding you. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without
changing a single idea." -- Robert Anton Wilson

"You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and
wonder what else you could do while you're down there."
 -- George Burns

"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where 
Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want
to give up power." -- Arthur C. Clarke