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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
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Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
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Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
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Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
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Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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