We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Great short quote and quotation by: Evelyn Waugh , English novelist & satirist (1903 – 1966)
We falsely attribute to men a determined character – putting together all their yesterdays – and averaging them – we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is the silent poor indeed. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David […]
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good […]
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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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US Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: US Declaration of Independence ,
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George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. Great short quote and […]
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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes […]
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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. Great short quote and quotation by: Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 – )
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Douglas ,
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