"Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on."

-- Larry Wall

“I'm proud of being Hispanic.”
“It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.”
“Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.”
“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”

Source : Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books
“He couldn't undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn't matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.”
“I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations....”
“Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.”
“THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER. A WORLD AT PRAYER IS A WORLD AT PEACE.”

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