Alfred Rupert Hall Quotes
The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
Frank Sinatra
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
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I pray the gods will give me some reliefAnd end this weary job. One long full yearI've been lying here, on this rooftop,The palace of the sons of Atreus,Resting on my arms, just like a dog.I've come to know the night sky, every star,The powers we see glittering in the sky,Bringing winter and summer to us all,As the constellations rise and sink.
Aeschylus
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Adam Smith
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There could be no negotiation between people who thought that cocaine was a vaguely naughty and salacious drug and the intravenous addict who know that it was an opportunity to experience the arctic landscape of pure terror.
Edward St Aubyn
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
Alfred Noyes
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I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
Claire Tomalin
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The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.
Aileen Lee
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The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
