"I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Fred D'Aguiar

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says”
“... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.”
“On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.”
“I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

Source : Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.
“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.”
“Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.”
“Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.”

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