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  2. Jack of all trades - Wikipedia

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    Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on only one. The original version, " a jack of all trades ", is often used as a compliment for a person who is good at fixing things and has a good level of broad knowledge.

  3. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. In the radio series and the first novel, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose.

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Time goes by slowly when your are living intensely; Time is a great healer; Time is money (Only) time will tell 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [11] To each his own; To err is human, to forgive divine

  5. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Wikipedia

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    [15] [16] James Boswell's 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson quotes Johnson as saying to an acquaintance in 1775 "Sir, hell is paved with good intentions." [17] An earlier iteration "borrowed of" another language was "Hell is full of good meanings and wishes" and was published in 1670 in A Collection of English Proverbs collected by John Ray. [18]

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    "When Hell freezes over" [2] and "on a cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come ...

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  8. George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army - Wikipedia

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    Sure, we all want to go home. We want to get this war over with. But you can't win a war lying down. The quickest way to get it over with is to get the bastards who started it. We want to get the hell over there and clean the goddamn thing up, and then get at those purple-pissing Japs. [a] The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we go home ...

  9. Omnia mutantur - Wikipedia

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    Omnia mutantur is a Latin phrase meaning "everything changes". It is most often used as part of two other phrases: It is most often used as part of two other phrases: Omnia mutantur, nihil interit ("everything changes, nothing perishes"), by Ovid in his Metamorphoses , and