Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.
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Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.
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Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on Ice encouraged a new kind of curiosity in me about things I would have thought boring before. Now I'm considering to pursue Geology after high school. Girls on Ice opened a door to new thoughts and interests for me to consider for my future.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
