"In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Real Quotes #Expression Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.”
“But I am weirdly healthy, so I donâ€™t beat myself up about itâ€”it wouldnâ€™t help, and I donâ€™t want to pass that on to my girls.”
“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
“Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong”
“Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.”
“Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.”
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.”

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