"Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers."

-- Martin Fowler

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“Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.”
“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.”
“I should have had the pickle.”
“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”
“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.”
“It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.”
“No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.”

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