"Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be."

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Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.56, The Overlook Press

R.J. Ellory

“It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.”
“UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.”

Source : "Modern Operating Systems". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992.
“What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.”
“Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.”
“All the literati keep An imaginary friend.”
“No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.”
“I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.”
“Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.”

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