#ali

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#consists #differ #difference #knowing #resemblance

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#among #between #differ #difference #lies

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#form #high #i #i feel #irony

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#achieve #choose #enough #goal #idealism

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#association #attacking #i #malicious #motion

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#consider #every #features #malicious #must

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#immortality #life #lived #make #moment

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#action movies #evil #exuberant #good #i