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“Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.”
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“The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”
Source : "A Personal View of APL". IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991.
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“In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.”
Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.12, Rowman Altamira
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“If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.”
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“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one”