Code Quotes - Page 24

• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

  Simon Barnes

  Sports, Team, Two

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• There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

  John Palfrey

  Government, Long, Chinese

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• If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

  Eric Maisel

  Creative, Feel Good, New Life

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.220, Penguin

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• The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.

  Craig Scott

  Construction Industry, Issues, Fire

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• Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

  Denis MacShane

  Europe, Potters, Fantasy

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Law, Politics

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• In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.

  Mike Hernacki

  Self Esteem, Lying, Self Confidence

  Hernacki, Mike “The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success”, Pelican Publishing

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• That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Moral

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• There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Self, Addresses

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• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Zips, Study, Lost

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• Whenever possible, steal code.

  Tom Duff

  Stealing

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• Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

  Tom Duff

  Shells, Examination, Littles

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• In code, it never pays to rush.

  Brian Marick

  Pay

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• As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

  Gerald Jonas

  Police, Promise, Bending

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• The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  People, Customs

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.11, Beard Books

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• The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Children, Father, Not Good Enough

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Would Be, Pieces

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XV: "We Arrive At The Real Question", 1929.

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• Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

  Robert W. Service

  Promise, Debt, Trails

  'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (1907)

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• The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Land, Tree

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.221

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• Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.

  Deborah Feldman

  People, Would Be, Lexicon

  Deborah Feldman (2014). “Exodus: A Memoir”, p.75, Penguin

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• I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.

  David First

  Hippie, Thinking, Two

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

  Auren Hoffman

  Might, Resolution, Draws

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• To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

  Peter Croft

  Fashion, Adventure, Mean

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• The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

  Timothy Leary

  Technology, Dna, World

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