Used Quotes - Page 16

• The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

  Sophie Monk

  Night, Fans, Adam

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• There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Humility, Arrogant, Able

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK

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• I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Mother, Different

  Daniel Woodrell (1999). “Ride with the Devil”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Research, Pressure, Under Pressure

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, Divorce

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• Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

  Bethany Mota

  Ink, Liquid, Eyeliner

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• I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

  Stefon Harris

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I think it says something about our culture. We, maybe, need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. This contraceptive thing. My gosh, it’s so inexpensive. Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.

  Foster Friess

  Real, Thinking, Issues

  "'Where Are the Women?': Lawmakers Walk Out on Contraception Rule Hearing After Female Witness Barred". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan González, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2012.

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• Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

  Pedro

  Smell, Taste, Ifs

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• There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

  Natalie

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.

  Du Mu

  Fire, Confusion, Enemy

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• Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

  Gib Lewis

  Distance, Texas, Long

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• I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Believe, Good Luck, Eight

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• My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

  Steve Sabol

  Father, Gentleman, Treats

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• So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
  the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes
  greater than the energy content of the oil, production
  will cease no matter what the monetary price may
  be.

  M. King Hubbert

  Oil, Long, Energy

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• Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

  Francois Rabelais

  Queens, Cheer, Sovereign

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Use, Littles, Too Much

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• As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Squares

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

  William Butler Yeats

  Desire, Might, Unbreakable

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.415

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• The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

  Peter Tork

  Plot, Comedy, Threatening

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• I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.

  Martin Millar

  Confused, Nice, School

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• For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  1596 The Faerie Queen, bk.5, proem, stanza 4.

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Simple, Doors

  "Song: "Old Black Kettle" ("My Tennessee Mountain Home")". March 26, 1973.

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