Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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«What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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Wave after waveWill flow with the tideAnd bury the world as it doesTide after tideWill flow and recedeLeaving life to go onAs it was... - Natural Science (1980)
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History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
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According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
