Dennis Ritchie Quotes
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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Time and chance reveal all secrets.
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I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
