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“If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.”
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“The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.”
Source : Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”
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“When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.”
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“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”
Source : Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2008). “Women impressionists”
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“Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.”
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“To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.”
Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.8, Princeton University Press
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“It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.”
Source : "Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306". Judicial opinion, 1952.
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“I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.”
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“Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago....”
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“I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey.”
