"The leading cause of death is birth."

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Source : "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

Lewis H. Lapham

#Causes Quotes #Birth Quotes

“C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.”

Source : Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?”
“If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect”
“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
“You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.”

Source : "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.”
“Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.”

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