“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”

― Linus Torvalds,

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“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity: the rule of law; limits on the power of the state; respect for women; private property; free speech; equal justice;...”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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