Bartholomew Roberts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
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There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
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For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
-- Bartholomew Roberts -
A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.
-- Bartholomew Roberts
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
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As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.
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I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
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Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!
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There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
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One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
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Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.
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Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
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