"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

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Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

Chinua Achebe

#Integrity Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.”
“All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.”
“I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.”
“Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.”
“No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.”
“I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.”

Source : Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001
“Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

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