#vic

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #contest #depend #does #enter

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

— Wietse Venema

#implemented #means #process #service #single

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#claims #during #each #endeavor #identify

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#completed #constituents #must #our #promised

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#being #change #fellow #foundation #human

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#country #current #disservice #diversity #does

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#drive #got #great #great music #miserable

When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins, And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens; The ladies went by me like snow on the wind. I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled, And I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them see There's part of me pure as the whisk of a wave. My lady is late but she'll find I've been faithful, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' At last came a lady both knowing and tender, Saying, 'you're not at all what they take you to be.' I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking, And she swallowed cold poison and jumped in the sea. And I say to myself when there's time for a word, As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved, 'Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#destructiveness #habit #lament #sin #vice

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man. ↗

— Barack Obama

#hope #service #family