“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”
Source: The Last Dragonslayer
“what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous!”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
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Ch XXI.
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RFC (Request for Comments) document: RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981)
This is often mistakenly attributed to Jon Postel, but it is actually a very slight variation on a quotation from John Shoch; both RFC-791 and its earlier version RFC-760 include, at the point in the text where this passage appears, a reference to Shoch's paper Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing, which is the original source of this observation.
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“It's a very odd thing&mdas;
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.”
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Miss T.
Bashar al-Assad
(1965) President of Syria
"If Sanctions Are Imposed on Syria, the Entire World Will Pay the Price" http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=958, MEMRI (Dec. 2005)