Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 1813.
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You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.
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Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.353
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