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“I believe myself capable of great things.”
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“The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.”
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“The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.”
Source : Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems”, p.14, Addison-Wesley
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“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.”
Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.14, Souvenir Press
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“In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.”
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“A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.”
Source : Hayden Carruth (1989). “Tell Me Again how the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
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“After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.”
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“Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”
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“Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.†-The Host”
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“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”
