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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. ↗

— Herbert Read

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

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