"No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons."

-- Neil Kinnock

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“C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.”

Source : Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, article.gmane.org, September 9, 2007.
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan
“En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est miseÂ rable: il est donc miseÂ rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.”
“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Source : "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.
“The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”

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