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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a ve

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. – Simon Raven

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. – Simon Raven

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. – Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977

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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, Oh, our attitude has changed. We dont dislike these people any more. But by the strangest coincidence, they havent taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books. – Christopher Isherwood

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My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. – Duke Ellington

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Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter. – Harshit Bhattaram

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The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. – William Shakespeare

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I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. Im acting. Its always, When I say youll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!? Then, Yeah, Dad. – Liam Neeson

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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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I trust my wife more than I trust myself. – Chris Paul

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