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  2. 50 positive life quotes to inspire, and lift your spirit each day

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    "Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.

  3. 50 Quotes About Time That Make You Grateful for Every Second

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    14. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus 15. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” —Seneca If you have the time, read these gratitude quotes that will remind ...

  4. Planning fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Opera House was expected to be completed in 1963. A scaled-down version opened in 1973, a decade later. The original cost was estimated at $7 million, but its delayed completion led to a cost of $102 million. [10] The Eurofighter Typhoon defense project took six years longer than expected, with an overrun cost of 8 billion euros. [10]

  5. Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]

  6. Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia

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    The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." (Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.

  7. 15 minutes of fame - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] In this formulation, Warhol's quote has been taken to mean: "At the present, because there are so many channels by which an individual might attain fame, albeit not enduring fame, virtually anyone can become famous for a brief period of time." There is a third and more remote interpretation of the term, as used by an individual who ...

  8. 35 Most Memorable Quotes from 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'

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    The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...

  9. Ninety–ninety rule - Wikipedia

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    The anecdote expresses both the rough allocation of time to easy and hard portions of a programming undertaking, and the cause of the lateness of many projects in their failure to anticipate their difficult, often unpredictable, complexities. In short, it often takes both more time and more coding than expected to complete a project.