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Pending quotes

I need to add these to my quotes DB:

Example quote.
-- Example attribution
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If it's work, people figure out how to do less. If it's art, people try to figure out how to do more.
-- Seth Godin
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We are what we celebrate.
-- Dean Kamen
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You can't see it if you don't look at it.
-- Dan McKenna
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
-- Richard Feynman
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Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.
-- Michael Hartung
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The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
-- Theo Jansen
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Do well by doing good.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there
-- Gordon Bell
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
-- Voltaire
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
-- Karl Taylor Compton, President of MIT, 1930–1948
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The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never tell if they are genuine.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Lord Peter Wimsey
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It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
-- William Ralph Inge
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Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
-- Catherine O'Hara
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If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, "Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot", you are wasting everybody’s time.
-- Julia Segal
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
-- Sigmund Freud
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
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I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences.
-- Umberto Eco
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So we have the strange phenomenon, as Kant assures us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of a set of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever.
-- William James
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When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing---they believe in anything.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-- NASA
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Love: the steady directing of the human will toward the eternal well-being of another
-- Stephen Neill
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Software license synopsis:
EULA: sharing is evil
 BSD: sharing is not evil
 GPL: not sharing is evil
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
-- John W Gardner
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He was guided by what he saw rather than what he wanted to believe.
-- Vernor Vinge
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
-- Mark Twain
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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When i ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
-- Dom Helder Camara
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"Apple Macintosh" — An anagram of "Complaints Heap".
-- Unknown

Processing

I need to do the following processing on select quotes:

Misspelling:

• 262: everybody
• 598: add space between try and to

Duplicates:

• 283
• 325

Combine 5 and 7, remove 7

Replace:

• 8
• 9
• 16

Fix quotes for:

• 23
• 53

Fix markup for:

• None

IRC quotes

Not sure whether these should be in my quotes DB, but they're interesting nonetheless.

<influx> almost everyone who leaves a voice mail on my phone
<influx> starts its with HEY FUCKER
<influx> pickup your phone
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<vamp_work> some guy named Debian hacked my box and made it unstable
<vamp_work> it tells me every time I log in
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<e\\oCo> Pookey: im a designer.. i need a wysiwug
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<SysError> i wish i had a girlfriend whos name didnt end in .jpg
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<influx> i remember turning on the tv in london
<influx> it was nonsense
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<ebnf> @_=/(\d)/g;($i,$s)=0;foreach(@_){if(($i++)%2==0){$_*=2;if($_>=10){$_=int($_/10)+($_-10);}}$s+=$_;}print($s%10==0?"$s - GOOD!\n":"$s - BAD!\n");
<ebnf> xjjk: that will verify if a credit cardnumber is valid
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<elrond3> basically, um.. chick with age x dates a guy with age (x-10)/5 + x
<elrond3> hmm.. maybe /3.
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Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud, after a while you realise the pig is enjoying it.