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“What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.”
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“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.”
Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies". "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-427. Book by George Bancroft, 1855.
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“I like to highlight people's superpowers.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of True Detective that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Harts voices.”
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“I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.”
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“I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.”
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“My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.”
Source : "Giffords: Too Soon to Settle on a Plan for Health Care". The Arizona Daily Star, August 11, 2009.
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“All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.”