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Wisdom
Last updated: Wed, 30 Apr 2025
o The country that gives up its freedom for security deserves neither - Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706 - 17 April 1790)

o Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire aka François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778)

o Be of good comfort Master Ridley and play the man: we shall this day by God's grace light such a candle in England, as I trust shall never be put out - Hugh Latimer (c. 1470 - 16 October 1555)

o Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Douglas Bradbury (22 August 1920 - 5 June 2012)

o A man is nothing without his conscience. Florida state Department of Health general counsel, 2024

English words 'v' scientific equations (New Scientist, 18 September 2024)

Larry Wall's 2007 essay on Scripting Languages

Quotations for all occasions

Wise Old Sayings

Collective Nouns:
A bale of turtles
A barren of mules
A bevy of roebuck
A bouquet of pheasants
A building of rooks
A business of ferrets
A cast of hawks
A cete of badgers
A charm of finches
A clowder of cats
A clutch of eggs
A colony of ants
A congregation of plovers
A covey of partridges
A crackle of cockatoos
A crash of rhinoceroses
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A drift of hogs
A drove of cattle
A dule of doves
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows
A flock of sheep
A gam of whales
A gang of elk
A harness of horses
A herd of elephants
A host of sparrows
A hover of trout
A husk of hares
A kindle of kittens
A knot of toads
A labor of moles
A leap of leopards
A litter of pups
A murmuration of starlings
A mustering of storks
An army of caterpillars
A nest of rabbits
An exaltation of larks
An ostentation of peacocks
A pace of asses
A paddling of ducks
A parliament of owls
A peep of chickens
A plague of locust
A pod of seals
A pride of lions
A rafter of turkeys
A rag of colts
A richness of martens
A route of wolves
A school of fish
A sett of badgers
A shoal of bass
A shrewdness of apes
A siege of herons
A singular of boars
A sloth of asses
A smack of jellyfish
A sounder of swine
A spring of teal
A string of ponies
A sulk of foxes
A tiding of magpies
A trip of goats
A troop of kangaroos
A unkindness of ravens
A walk of snipe
A watch of nightingales
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