Source Quotes - Page 40

• When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

  Linus Torvalds

  Needs, Enough, Economy

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Energy, Dollars

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• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Age, Movement, Exploration

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sea, Water, Different

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

  Richard Wagner

  Worry, Achievement, Results

  Richard Wagner (1950). “Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection ...”

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• A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Mind, Making Money

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• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  Lech Walesa

  Truth, People, Dignity

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• The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

  Noah Webster

  Truth, Men, Social

  Noah Webster (1834). “Value of the Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion: For the Use of Families and Schools”, p.177

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• It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

  Andrew Weil

  Brain, Important, Needs

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• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Ideas, Intellectual

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• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Curt Weldon

  Worry, Information, Reason

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Curiosity, Tabloids

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• Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

  Bob Woodward

  Editors, Names, Given

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• I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

  Bob Woodward

  Opportunity, Hands, People

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• Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

  Bob Woodward

  Government, Accountability, Done

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• The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Scandal

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Art, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

  Brigham Young

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Light

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• I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

  Neil Young

  Nature, Believe, Realizing

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