"One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity."

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Charles Brenton Huggins

#Justice Quotes #Identity Quotes #Pits Quotes

“All things are subject to decay and change...”

Source : Polybius (1812). “The General History of the Wars of the Romans”, p.401
“I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.”
“He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.”
“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.”
“Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.”
“We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.”

Source : Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.
“Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.”
“In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.”

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