favourite quotes

[Tiwaking!]

 Language is the key to world peace. If we all spoke each other's tongues, perhaps the scourge of war would be ended forever.

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Does the US tech world really need to do that to be competitive, or are they just being unpatriotic greedy shitheads?

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They also serve who only stand and wait

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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate

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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you adjust to the unforseen is what determines success and how you choose who leads determines character

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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends

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Wise men speak because they have something to say
Fools speak because they have to say something

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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English

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there is no such thing as failure just experiences and your reactions to them

[ThunderSurf]

well then

[Tiwaking!]

Architecture is about intent. A good architecture maximizes the number of decisions NOT made

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anyone worth shooting once is worth shooting a bunch of times

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Always love your country, but never trust the government

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters

[Tiwaking!]

The state isn't salvation. The individual is salvation. And it's not only the individual, it's the truthful individual

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People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away

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Pacing involves matching the person you plan to persuade in as many ways as possible, including the way the person thinks, speaks, breathes, and moves. Pacing builds trust because people see you as being the same as them. After pacing, a persuader can then lead, and the subject will be comfortable following

[Tiwaking!]

When engineers set out to build a bridge a bridge gets built.  Our water ways are not cluttered with abandoned structures that cannot be made to work; bridge building is almost always successful.  And the constructed bridges almost always function correctly and are usually built fairly close to budget.  But when a large team of programmers sets out to develop software it is very uncertain whether anything of use will be delivered at all. 

[Tiwaking!]

If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it

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When a game with infinite currency is doing better than a socialist country, it's time to stop.

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To a liberal all that matters is your race and your genitals

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Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see

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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them

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When you are lying drunk at the airport, you're Irish. When you win an Oscar, you're British