"I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more."

-- Jamie Zawinski

#Thinking Quotes #Linux Quotes #Tools Quotes

“Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt
“My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.”

Source : "The Confessions of Mike De Luca" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.
“LibertÃ©, Ã©galitÃ©, fraternitÃ©. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.”

Source : "The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake". Book by Charles Fitzgeoffrey, stanza 213, 1596.
“I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.”
“I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now Iâ€™ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.”
“I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.
“Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,”

Source : "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.
“Lately Iâ€™d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.”

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