"If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it."

-- Richard Stallman

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“That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin
“I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”
“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.”
“The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.”
“Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
“I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”
“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”
“Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.”

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