"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

-- Alan Perlis

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“Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.”
“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company
“When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.”
“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
“Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.”
“Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.”

Source : "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.
“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”

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