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I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.


Linus Torvalds


#felt #how #i #important #issue

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.


Jon Bon Jovi


#benjamin #benjamin franklin #constitution #credited #franklin

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.


Milla Jovovich


#childhood #examining #framing #had #me

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.


Elena Kagan


#apparent #aspect #debate #discuss #divide

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#cold #cold war #commit #crimes #domination

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#criticize #east #fear #felt #him

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#both #deliberately #his #invite #kept

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#amin #because #death #entire #feared

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.


George S. Kaufman


#examining #home #i #kind #me






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