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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? ↗

— Robert Casey

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As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock. ↗

— Howard Carter

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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? ↗

— Richard Powers

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Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. ↗

— David Caruso

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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. ↗

— James Carville

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I don't compromise my principles for politics. ↗

— Chris Christie

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high