"There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control."

-- Publilius Syrus

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“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”
“The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman”
“It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.”
“People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.”

Source : "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.
“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.”
“I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.”
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”

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