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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #beautiful #because #confront #death

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#black-and-white #bush #every #evil #george

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#earth #experience #his #how #knows

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#difference #every #expression #follows #fundamental

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#basis #beautiful #color #converse #internet

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#implemented #means #process #service #single

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum. ↗

— John Elway

#appreciate #both #ends #experienced #highest

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#alone #cannot #children #circumstances #decades

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#find #i #i see #interested #interesting

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither