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Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2981.

  • Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
    Notes on structured programming (1970)
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
    Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (1930 - 2002)
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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Mario Vargas Llosa Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Calvin Harris Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Malcolm X Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver 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.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Richard Bach Real love stories never have endings.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Allen White Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Josh Billings Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Doug Horton Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.
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  • John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Jean Rostand Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Jowett Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Benjamin Jowett Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
    In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smiths Unforgotten Years
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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