Bertrand Russell Quotes
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
Bertrand Russell
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
Samantha Power
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People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
Felicia Day
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Irina Shayk
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin
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Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Frances Burney
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You can have Whatever You LikeStacks on deck, patron on icecan pop bottles all nightAnd baby you can have Whatever You LikeSaid you can have Whatever You Like, yeahh
T.I.
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3: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.
Alan Perlis
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The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
Coventry Patmore
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L'amante, per aver quel che desia,Senza guardar che Dio tutto ode e vede,Aviluppa promesse e giuramenti,Che tutti spargon poi per l'aria i venti.
Ludovico Ariosto
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If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
