Brian Behlendorf Quotes
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
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There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.
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We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway. And we choose how to receive it. It's our decision how to honor it.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
