"It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning."

-- Linus Torvalds

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“Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.”
“The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best.”
“Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral”
“My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look for vigorous prose, which is the only kind I can read for very long. That effectively bars a great deal of scholarly work, but I didn't feel its loss.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.”
“Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.”

Source : D. Harlan Wilson (2013). “The Kyoto Man”
“You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.”
“What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star”

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