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  • Bjarne Stroustrup People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bob Newhart People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Caroline Glick Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
    Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. Discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Brad Feld Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Bryson Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • George Orwell Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bea Arthur PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Arnold Newman Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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