Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
Eminem
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony de Mello
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
Linus Torvalds
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
Agatha Christie
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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
Conan O'Brien
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Simple, single-metric quotas and forecasts are rare in any size business, but the SFA tools offered -- both on-premise and hosted -- can't handle this basic requirement, ... As a result, most forecasting and commissions happen in Excel, not the SFA tool.
Zach Nelson
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
Dylan Moran
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Seneca the Younger