"I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success."

-- Monte Irvin

#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Father Quotes

“Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.”

Source : Rodney Allen Brooks (1985). “Programming in Common LISP”, John Wiley & Sons Inc
“Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.”
“Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.”
“Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.”
“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”
“I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.”
“I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.”
“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

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