"Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding."

-- Larry Wall

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“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”
“Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster
“I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.”
“Humanism has many meanings, but what attracts me about it is that it encourages men and women to take a broad view of situations and to think about them from on-the-ground perspectives rather than through theoretical and conceptual lenses.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.”
“[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”
“The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.”
“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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