"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."

-- Charles Babbage

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“Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.”
“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”
“The true poem rests between the words.”

Source : "Shades of the World". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1985.
“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”
“Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.”
“Always remember, however, that thereâ€™s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “The METAFONTbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.”
“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

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