"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay."

-- Tony Hoare

#Simplicity Quotes #May Quotes #Pay Quotes

“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationâ€™s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).”
“I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.”
“We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.”
“The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.”
“...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.”
“Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”
“The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.”
“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

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