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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#about #astronomy #computer #computer science #more

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#bad #bunker #chip #eight #execution

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" ↗

— Annie Dillard

#did #go #go to hell #god #hell

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bible #dedicated #exhort #i #life

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#anger #bell #business #cry #dealing

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#body talks #god #insist #nobody #talks

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #avoid #because #blatant #could

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it. ↗

— Kevin Brady

#actually #balancing #between #budget #difficult

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#killing #know #living #more #peace