"There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation."

-- Bertrand Meyer

“You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.”
“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.”
“We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.”
“The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.”
“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”

Source : "Misfortune". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.
“If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
“When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.”
“Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.”

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