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“Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.”
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“We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.”
Source : "Philip Greenspun Answers". Slashdot Interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000. 
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“If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?”
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“There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.”
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“Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.”
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“You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.”
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“Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.”
Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.4, Bantam
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“Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied”
