Larry Wall Quotes
Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
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Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.
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The sea returns upon the men, The fields entrap the children, brick Is a weed and all the flies are caught, Wingless and withered, but living alive. The discord merely magnified. Deeper within the belly's dark Of time, time grows upon the rock.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
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I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
