"... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore."

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Gwendolyn Brooks

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #Swim Quotes

“On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
“I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.”
“So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.”
“..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.”
“For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.”
“There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program”

Source : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

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