"In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you."

-- Pierre Trudeau

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“With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things heâ€™ll never know.”
“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.”

Source : Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
“I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.”
“While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.”
“When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.”

Source : Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.53, Penguin
“The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.”

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