"Compulsion is the death of friendship."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Compulsion Quotes

“The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.”
“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.”
“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”
“Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.”
“I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.”

Source : "Patti Stanger, ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Star, Reveals Online Dating Pet Peeve" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.
“Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.”
“Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.”
“A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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