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«Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela
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«For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed»
«Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.»
«Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
(Tennis Player)
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«Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.»
Author: St. John of the Cross
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«If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.»
Author: Tony Benn
(Politician)
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«Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?»
Author: Warren Hutcherson
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«He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Military
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«for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.»
«These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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