Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
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When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
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The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
