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Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1861.

  • Bill Gates 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.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Purity of heart is to will one thing.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cat Stevens Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
    As quoted in Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie, by Craig R. Whitney, in The New York Times (23 May 1989), p. C18
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Burning Spear Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Patrick Henry Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Joyce Cary Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Stephen King Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
    Different Seasons (1982)
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Frank Crane Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Voltaire Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Angela Davis Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Ben Shahn Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Brett Hoebel Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Ben Nicholson Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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