"Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age"

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Source : Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

Nizar Qabbani

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“You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
“Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.”
“[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”

Source : "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 122), March 1976.
“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”
“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”

Source : Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 30, 1987.
“Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.”
“Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.”

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