"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."

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Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

James F. Cooper

#Party Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Legislation Quotes

“Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”

Source : Roger C. Schank, Peter G. Childers (1984). “The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence”, Addison-Wesley
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got”

Source : Song: Tell Him, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
“I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.”
“I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife”
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
“The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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