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«A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.»
Author: Emo Philips | About: Computers | Keywords: beat, boxing, chess, kick, match
«I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men»
«Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match»
Author: Ingrid Bengis (Author) | About: Imagination | Keywords: match, resurrection
«A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.»
Author: Kong Fu Zi | Keywords: ashamed, gentleman, match
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
«For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.»
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
«A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.»
«A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.»
«All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.»

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