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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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The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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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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There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away. ↗

— Michael Reagan

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I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up. ↗

— Michael Reagan

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Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds. ↗

— Ron Reagan

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