"When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world."

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Source : "Judgment Day... again". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

James Buchan

#Generations Quotes #World Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again.”

Source : Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK
“I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.”
“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.36, Pearson Education
“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”
“If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?”
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”
“There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.”

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