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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 24, 2025

   CORPORAL: [trying to copy Lawrence’s snuffing a match with his fingers] Ow! It damn well ‘urts!
   LAWRENCE: Certainly it hurts.
   CORPORAL: Well what’s the trick then?
   LAWRENCE: The trick, William Potter, is not minding if it hurts.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Lawrence of Arabia, Part 1, sc. 18 (1962) [with Michael Wilson]

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Lawrence of Arabia, Part 1, sc. 18 (1962) [with Michael Wilson] - Bolt, Robert | WIST Quotations

CORPORAL: [trying to copy Lawrence's snuffing a match with his fingers] Ow! It damn well 'urts! LAWRENCE: Certainly it hurts. CORPORAL: Well what's the trick then? LAWRENCE: The trick, William Potter, is not minding if it hurts. (Source (Video)). In the actual film, the last line is given, "not minding…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 31, 2025

A quotation from Judith Martin

The wisest thing to do, whenever someone says, “I knew you wouldn’t mind,” is to run. No good will follow.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-02-18)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/75947/

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Hacker News Mar 20, 2025

Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/03/19/minding-the-gaps-a-new-way-to-draw-separators-in-css/

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Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS

Drawing separator lines between various sections of a webpage is a common design technique, which can help to structure the content and make it more readable, as well as more aesthetically pleasing. As we'll see in this article, there are techniques

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