"You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things"

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“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”
“The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.”
“It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.”
“An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries”
“I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.”
“In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.”

Source : "Smith has record in sight". Scott Ferrell, The Times, August 30, 2002.
“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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