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“If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing.”
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“I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.”
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“Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm”
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“Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.”
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“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.”
Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”
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“One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.”
Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
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“All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.”
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“Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”
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“I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.”
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“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”
