Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Being evil is easy.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
