. . . it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling … - P. G. Wodehouse

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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

P. G. Wodehouse

. . . it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

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