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Quotes of the Day for 23 March 2004 - Walls

A firewall is a system that sits between two networks, allowing desirable traffic (web access, e-mail, etc.) and keeping out the bad guys. I've been working on replacing two older firewalls with one current one, with mixed results, so walls were on my mind.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
     - Aristophanes

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
     - Charles Hanson Towne

Convey love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again.
     - Francis Quarles

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
     - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
     - Michael Jordan

With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
     - Norman Mailer

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