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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way. ↗

— Brad Dourif

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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. ↗

— Rita Dove

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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

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