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Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II
The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane Great short quote and quotation by: Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II , (1933 – 1967)
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Great short quote and quotation by: Plato , Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Heinlein , US science fiction author (1907 – 1988)
Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]
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Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, […]
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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. Great short quote and quotation by: Herman Melville, Moby Dick , US novelist & sailor (1819 – […]
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Great short quote and quotation by: Leo Tolstoy , Russian mystic & novelist (1828 – 1910)
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge , […]
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french […]
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly… it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Paine , US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
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Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. Great short quote and quotation by: Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing ,
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