Linus Torvalds Quotes
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'
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President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
