#peri

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. ↗

— Thucydides

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He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#asian #asian-fetish #boy #boyfriend #erotic-fiction

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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