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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#effective #extremely #formal #joys #life

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland. ↗

— John Doolittle

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You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative. ↗

— Drake

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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting