Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: twice

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Quoted In The Grove:

I’ve been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don’t want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don’t, look better than you, so why bother?
~Peter Buck

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.
~Raymond Chandler

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
~Paul Newman

EndQuote:
When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, ‘For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.’ So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!
~Sofia Boutella

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Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.
~William Shakespeare

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
~Napoleon Hill

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
~William Penn

AfterWords:
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
~Evan Esar

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I get restless very easily; I don’t like to do the same thing twice.
~Johann Johannsson

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over.
~Gary Oldman

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice.
~Margaret Mahy

A4Thought:
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won’t have to do it twice.
~David Seabury

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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
~Heraclitus

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
~Heraclitus

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
~Heraclitus

AfterThought:
Faith? Haven’t any. I’m not a nihilist or a relativist. I don’t believe in anything but change. I’m a Heraclitean ‒ you can’t step in the same river twice.
~Philip Johnson

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He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
~Beilby Porteus

That’s the way I look at things ‒ if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you’ve lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I’m telling you ‒ it works for me.
~Michael J Fox

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
~Sophocles.

AndSo4th:
Today, I don’t have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can’t lose my legs twice.
~Alex Zanardi

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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
~Natalie Massenet

If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.
~Elvis Presley

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice ‒ or more ‒ before suggesting a change.
~Stan Musial (MLB)

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I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
~Anne Bronte

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Next Exercise Prompt: rule

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won.
~Voltaire

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
~Austin O’Malley

The world is twice as crazy as it’s ever been.
~Maurice Sendak

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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
~Edvard Munch

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.
~Julius Caesar.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
~Randall Terry

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice … strike three.
~Steve Carell.

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
~Chuck Berry

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During my career I had been training twice a day, every day, because it was all about me. That was the job. But with kids, my hours were vastly reduced.
~Denise Lewis (athlete/sports presenter)

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
~Sissy Spacek

Until you get your reputation made, you have to work twice as hard… there is always a doubt in your superior’s mind as to whether you will put family before your job.
~Arundhati Bhattacharya

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I love movies like ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice‘ that are based on short novellas.
~Lynne Ramsay

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Tom Stoppard

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
~Samuel Goldwyn

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To question me once is a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.
~Terry Goodkind (author)

Once is never. Twice is always.
~James S A Corey

The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there…
~William Tyler

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Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
~William J Mayo

Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
~Akio Morita

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
~Alexander Hamilton

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.
~Steven Wright

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~Aristotle

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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak?
Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
~Bill Watterson

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.
~Thomas Browne

Every time something pops in my head, I think twice about it and I do it anyway.
~Gilbert Gottfried

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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
~Marlene Dietrich

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
~Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary)

Get your friends together, even if it’s just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.
~Laurie David

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Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
~Sylvester Stallon

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
~Ian Fleming

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.
~Publilius Syrus

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I mean, I’ve done different things at different times that I shouldn’t have done, once or twice, you know.
~George Michael

I don’t talk about my past; people ask me about it. I’ve done things I’m ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I’ve done that I regret, I’ve never done twice. I work really hard at that.
~Art Alexakis (of Everclear)

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.
Harrison Ford

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They’re like, ‘Oh, you did a…’ and I’m like, ‘I did a what?’ No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, ‘It’s called a…’ and I’m like, ‘Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.’
~Simone Biles (WAG ‒ World Artistic Gymnastics)

In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
~Althea Gibson (WTA/PGA)

It takes a lot of people. I would not swim if it was just me. If I didn’t have any teammates, I couldn’t stay in a pool for two hours, twice a day, nine times a week. I can’t do that. And I’m fine with admitting that. I couldn’t do this by myself.
~Caeleb Dressel (WA ‒ World Aquatics)

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One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It’s just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.
~Hugh Jackman

I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.
~Jessica St Clair

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I’m not Hugh Jackman. I’m not a dad. I’m not a husband. I’m just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
~Hugh Jackman

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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
~Frank McCourt

I don’t think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.
~Mark Frost

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
~Daphne du Maurier

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Posted From The Grove

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
~Edward Heath

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Terrorism needs to be de-legitimized in the way that slavery has been. Doing so will make governments and individuals think twice before becoming a party to terrorism; it should also make it less difficult to garner support for international action against those who nevertheless carry it out.
~Richard N Haass (US diplomat)

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual’s pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
~Matt Taibbi

We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.
~Robert M Edsel

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
~Michael Howard

To think twice is quite enough.
~Confucius

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We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
~Michael McCaul

You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Five years of Republicans’ failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.
~Russ Carnahan

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
~Mark Twain

What I’m primarily saying,’ he says, ‘is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice.
~George Saunders

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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
~Martin Van Buren (8th Pres, VP of Andrew Jackson, )

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
~Leonard Lauder

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
~Baltasar Gracian

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I should say the leadership’s proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.
~Rahm Emanuel

I feel very lucky to be born into one of the most developed, relatively accepting and progressive countries in the world. But why is it that it’s a country where 50 per cent of disabled people of working age are without employment, that’s twice the national average.
~Chris McCausland (blind actor/comic, Brit)

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
~William Weld

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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
~Bernie Sanders

The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services as do citizens of other wealthy countries, but they don’t have better outcomes.
~Annie Lowrey

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It’s also the only privatized system.
~Noam Chomsky

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Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.
~Michael Hayden

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around [are] to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
~Joe Biden

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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
~Tom Hayden (’60s activist)

President Obama did something that no Democrat’s done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don’t really buy that his policy is that unpopular.
~Sherrod Brown

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When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership ‒ not once, but twice ‒ and defied the mainstream media’s expectations to gain Labour seats in the 2017 election, it was no surprise to those of us who have always backed Corbyn and his agenda for change.
~Clive Lewis

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
~John G Diefenbaker

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What happens traditionally in a campaign is they will go out to their list once or twice a week to raise money from their fund-raisers, but when a candidate gets to a general election, you get some donor fatigue because they’ve already maxed out their campaign to give.
~Corey Lewandowski

I may not be the world’s best glad-handing politician, but I’ve been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
~Anthony A Williams (Washington, DC)

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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
~Adlai Stevenson

There have been times when I’ve shaved twice in the same morning because I’ve forgotten I’ve shaved already.
~Steven Knight (screenwriter)

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You never want to put yourself in the position where something not working out is bigger than what you are and therefore takes you down. It’s got to be in smaller chunks. In all cases, I want to learn something from things that didn’t quite work out and learn, so that it doesn’t happen again or so that in the future, you make great decisions. You don’t want to make the same mistake twice and you have to learn that early on in your life.
~Donald Trump

The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.
~Ronna McDaniel

If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
~Tom Stoppard

The public seldom forgive twice.
~Johann Kaspar Lavater

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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
~William J Clinton

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
~Louis L’Amour

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It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.
~Nigel Lawson

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
~Gloria Steinem

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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
~Ian Fleming

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European exporters will be paying twice as much duty on stuff they sell to the U.K. because they sell twice as much stuff as we sell to them. We would then have quite a lot of money to support our industries in ways that we choose when we leave the E.U.
~Crispin Blunt

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
~Newt Gingrich

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Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations ‒ sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.
~Greg Gutfeld

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them ‒ in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
~Oliver North

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As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
~Ariel Sharon (ex-Gen/PM, Israel)

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.
~Ahmed Ben Bella (ex-Pres, Algeria)

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I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
~George Papandreou (ex-PM, Greece)

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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
~Irvin D Yalom

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father’s generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
~James Forman, Jr

I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn’t think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
~Carl Hart (psych/neuroscience)

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don’t want it.
~Flip Wilson (black comic)

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I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard.
~Lin-Manuel Miranda

I’m very inspired by him‒it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
~Zinedine Zidane

Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia ‒ first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
~Madeleine Albright

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
~Mark McKinnon

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
~Wayne Huizenga

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~Matthew Salton: Richard Twice (10:25) a musical biography

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~Michael McIntyre: Silent Letter Day (4:39) just because…

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
~Les Brown

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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
~Thomas Sowell

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
~William Shakespeare

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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
~Sam Yagan (entrepreneur)

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
~Ihara Saikaku

I don’t believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
~Guy Laliberte

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
~Marcus Garvey

You have to have a ton of passion for what you’re doing because being an entrepreneur is probably twice as hard as you think it’s going to be. The good news is that it’s probably twice as much fun when it’s going well.
~Keith Belling

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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 ‒ twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
~Jeff Goodell

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
~Norman Ralph Augustine

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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice ‒ in giving a failure another chance.
~James Cash Penney

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff’s flexibility, responsiveness and skills.
~David Blunkett

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Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that’s about twice the size of the movie industry ‒ it’s really big.
~Anthony Goldbloom

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don’t have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.
~Kevin Plank (Under Armor)

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El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
~Tommy Caldwell

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.
~Jimmy Chin

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With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
~Kathryn Lasky

There are very few things I’ve done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.
~Nicholas Kristof

I’ve fractured my skull twice, damaged a kidney, snapped a cruciate ligament in my knee, and broken all manner of bones, including my jaw. And I count myself very lucky it hasn’t been worse!
~Eddie the Eagle (ski jump)

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GYM

I work in the gym; twice a week, I do abdominals. It is very, very important. I do quick sessions, as I don’t want to get big.
~Sadio Mane (soccer)

If I’m in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I’m not big on gyms. When I did ‘Rampart,’ I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.
~Woody Harrelson (gym)

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan’s Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
~Pete Hamill (WBO)

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FIFA — soccer

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don’t regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
~Michel Patini (France)

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.
~Ronaldo

I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.
~Carlo Ancelotti

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If you hear big clubs are interested, it’s always nice to know people appreciate what you do, but when Tottenham said, ‘We want him,’ I didn’t have to think twice.
~Mousa Dembele

I am very happy to be here in Manchester. It’s a real joyful moment for me. I’ve always dreamt of playing in English football. When Manchester United was mentioned I didn’t have to think twice.
~Eric Bailly

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What matters is the team winning. Even if I only managed to score once or twice all season, if the team won the league title, I’d still be happy.
~Ivan Perisic

It is our desire to win the World Cup again but it is going to be difficult and we mustn’t forget that in the history of football, Argentina has only won the World Cup twice. That shows how difficult it will be to win it.
~Hernan Crespo

As a player, perhaps you have the chance to take part in a World Cup or a European Championship twice or three times in a lifetime. Other competitions, you have another match three days later. Here, it’s different: we know we’re out if we don’t win.
~Kevin De Bruyne

I did what I was supposed to do. My job as President is to help my States of America win with a full team… that’s my job. It’s that president of FIFA… it’s his job to enforce the rules, never mind any threats made. And he didn’t do that! He knew our team would be compromised, handicapped… political pawns ‘n stuff. He knew they couldn’t fight proud, he broke the champions they used to…, the fighting wounded… the true… uh, the honorable warriors they are. That guy knew this, and he didn’t do his job! Thicker than mud, and twice as dumb! Not my fault.
~D T Rump

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won’t think twice.
~John Terry

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I had three years of success with Molde, winning the League twice and the Cup. I thought I was fully prepared, that I was ready for the Premier League. But it’s a completely different world there. Everything is much bigger.
~Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Anyone who’s seen the Wigan [local English League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter… No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.
~Colin Welland

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MLB — Baseball

If I can get on base once or twice a game, steal a bag, do something, then I’m happy.
~Ken Griffey Jr

Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.
~George Vecsey

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don’t even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
~Bill James

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MMA — Mixed Martial Arts

When I’m training, I come to the gym twice a day and sometimes three times. My coach and I make our schedule: wrestle in the morning, strike and conditioning, jujitsu later. And we mix it up as well. I always move everything around. I don’t keep everything the same every day.
~Amanda Nunes

If I’m only fighting once or twice a year, that’s just not going to be enough to make a dent in the sport or enough financially for me to get myself to where I want to be and position myself.
~Aljamain Sterling

With the contracts, I get paid twice as much if I win than if I lose. So, obviously winning is number one, but I’m not satisfied with the judges having to come into play.
~Jim Miller

Obviously I’ve fought Aldo twice, and Conor for the fake belt.
~Chad Mendes

It’s the sad thing about entertainment: it’s not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn’t need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn’t ruin their marketing.
~Jake Roberts

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NBA — Basketball

Do you know how many teams have won three straight titles over the last 40 years? Two. Michael Jordan’s Bulls twice in the 1990s and Kobe and Shaq’s Lakers from 2000-02. LeBron would have joined that list had Miami won that third straight title.
~Joy Taylor

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.
~Jason Kidd (player/coach)

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NFL — Football

You don’t want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
~LaMarr Woodley

If I’m man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that’s an automatic win because I can run by him. If I’m one-on-one against a corner, I’m gonna catch it all day, because I’m twice his size.
~Jimmy Graham

We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn’t size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.
~Mark Schlereth

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
~Vince Lombardi

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PGA — Golf

I do get addicted to stuff. I tried playing golf and I was soon going twice a day.
~Phil Taylor

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
~Joe Henderson

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can’t golf on a plane.
~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (knitting needless onboard notwithstanding)

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SCHOOL

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.
~Sebastian Coe (Olympic records)

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton two sports every season ‒ and I was named female athlete of the year twice.
~Gail Kim (WWE)

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.
~Peter Forsberg

Monday though Wednesday I am in the gym twice; then I have school at night. Those days are hard. The other days are training and writing essays. Time management has been key.
~Tecia Torres (MMA’s Tiny Tornado)

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WA (World Athletics) — Track

I’ve raced on all seven continents at least twice. I’ve probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I’m most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.
~Dean Karnazes

A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them. The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it’s important. I’ve win it twice and it’s a quality event.
~Paula Radcliffe

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My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.
~Sebastian Coe

I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
~Dean Karnazes

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WBO — Boxing

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I’ve seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.
~Evander Holyfield

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.
~Sonny Bill Williams

Boxing changed my life twice.
~Amir Khan

Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.
~Roy Jones Jr

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WHA — Hockey

I was known as the weird guy who couldn’t play basketball because I had to go to hockey practice twice a week.
~T J Oshie

We’re so used to it that we don’t think twice about it. For somebody who’s starting out in ice hockey it would be heavy, but it’s protection. It’s everything you need so you do have to get used to it.
~Gerad Adams

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How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
~Lee Trevino (PGA)

You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
~Lewis Hamilton (FIA/motor sports)

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§ VIDEO:

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I’ve never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn’t surprise me in some way, I simply can’t commit to the project.
~Sherilyn Fenn

I don’t want to play the same person twice, that’s not why I wanted to act.
~Jennifer Jason Leigh

I always put myself in the audience’s place and see if, as a viewer, I would want to see the film. If yes, then I want to know who’s directing it, what my character is, and if it’s impactful. If all these points fall in place, I’ll do the film. If not, then I won’t think twice before saying no.
~Neil Nitin Mukesh (Indian actor)

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I don’t like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something’s missing. So I’ll play with it until it makes sense.
~Alan Arkin

I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it’s quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don’t want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don’t really feel like you’ve given them what you want.
~Luke Evans

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‘Green Lantern‘ I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I’m glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.
~Ryan Reynolds

My friends have noticed that if I suddenly go through a couple of months’ unemployment, there seems to be a correlation that I don’t ever tend to wear the same outfit twice. There will be such strange combinations of clothes because I’m probably a bit creatively stifled, so it’s coming out in my wardrobe.
~Rebecca Hall

I didn’t go to drama school. It wasn’t in the pay grade of my family at all. I looked into some of the schools and the top ones were just so expensive. And it’s a shame because I sometimes feel that you have to work twice as hard if you come from a working class background.
~Jamie-Lee O’Donnell

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth‘ or ‘Pacific Rim‘ or the opening of ‘The Simpsons,’ I do it with that hope.
~Guillermo del Toro

I believe real brothers or sisters should not do a film together. People tend to compare. They don’t think twice before saying anything.
~Aparshakti Khurana

For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.
~Vijay Krishna Acharya

I have been approached twice before for ‘Mahadev.’ But they were for some other characters. This was the third time. I didn’t want to say no because being an Indian we are all attached to Ramayan and Mahabharat and it is an honor for me to play Sita on screen.
~Rubina Dilaik

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn’t miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English ‒ that wouldn’t come twice.
~Marion Cotillard

Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons ‒ as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
~Chris Sarandon

I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I’ve done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.
~Ne-Yo

Don’t think twice. If it’s a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don’t think twice.
~Jenny Slate

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I do get in the water, but I was ruined by ‘Jaws‘ ’cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching ‘Jaws,’ I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.
~Catherine Oxenberg

I remember cycling down in my hometown Kanpur twice in two days for eight kilometres to see ‘Ardh Satya.’ I loved its rawness at a time when everyone was doing potboilers.
~Vijay Krishna Acharya (ideals vs reality)

My first film, ‘Leader,’ created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.
~Rana Daggubati

‘Beyond the Lights‘ took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming ‘no.’ Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was ‘Love & Basketball.’ Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.
~Gina Prince-Bythewood

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you’ve got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
~Colin Firth

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It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg ‒ I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn’t realize was I was learning directing because he wasn’t all that good about acting, not for me.
~Mike Nichols

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.
~Michael Douglas

People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
~Tim Burton

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In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into ‘Big Brother‘, which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.
~Freddie Stroma

What’s annoying is we’ve launched a lot of shows like ‘Pop Idol,’ and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. ‘I’m A Celebrity‘ has been done twice in America now ‒ but they changed the hosts. ‘America’s Got Talent,’ we don’t host ‒ somebody else hosts.
~Ant McPartlin

I’ve sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they’ve never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.
~Maz Jobrani

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I played a killer twice. Once on ‘Matlock,’ on Andy Griffith’s show, I got to play the killer.
~Dick Van Dyke

I’ve done ‘The Love Boat‘ twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it.
~Peter Scolari

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With stage, it’s very tough. You have to have a lot of stamina ‒ you’re doing eight shows a week for 19 weeks. The same thing, every night. Twice a day some days. The only full day I actually had off was Sunday. And every night is different.
~Ellie Bamber

We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there’s a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we’re doing it twice.
~Bill Irwin

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Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you’re lucky if the sound of a police car doesn’t rip the envelope twice a night.
~Tom Stoppard

I’ve been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show ‘Billy Elliot‘ there ‒ phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
~Olesya Rulin

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~Omeleto: Sienna And The Sit (16:54) escaping the grief X-times later

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~The CG Bros: Adult Hair (4:41) animated escapist goof

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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice.
Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
~B B King

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like “Girl From the North Country,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,” and “It Ain’t Me, Babe.”
~Jay Michaelson

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
~Olusegun Obasanjo

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
~Gary Wolf

Regardless of Bill Clinton’s politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency ‒ twice. Don’t take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
~Mike Huckabee

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him ‒ he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
~J Cole

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I’ve always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family ‒ there are 10 kids ‒ I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I’d sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
~Kurt Vile (music)

I have accidentally fallen asleep twice in my life and it freaked me out when I woke because I didn’t know what happened.
~Mat Fraser (enabled, disabled actor)

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I’m a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I’m ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
~Sarah Silverman

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
~Natalie Portman

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There was years when my father didn’t even make a hundred grand ‒ or barely made a hundred grand ‒ and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?
~Chael Sonnen

My house is really clean. It’s a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let’s just say that, in between times, maybe it’s not quite so clean.
~Tommy Lee

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.
~Frank Abagnale (con artist/consultant)

I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off ‒ they were empty anyway ‒ and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.
~Jack Monroe (food writer)

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I’ve done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you’re still dead. For that much money I’d want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.
~Karl Pilkington

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.
~Anh Do

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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
~Zendaya (actor/singer)

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.
~Robert Kiyosaki (author/investor)

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I don’t even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it’s always been a part of my lifestyle.
~Audrina Patridge (of The Hills)

No one looks twice at me when they’re around, and ‘Cinderella‘ has made no difference. And I know that isn’t going to change.
~Lily James

I’m the ugly sister. I’m the fat one. I’m the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It’s horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
~Khloe Kardashian

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I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.
~Rudy Giuliani

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere’s a research library and I can’t get an elitist kick from it any more.
~Douglas Coupland

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I like to have money, because I like what it gives me. I like to buy nice clothes. I like to eat well at good restaurants. If I hear about some new amplifier or something I want, I like being able to say without thinking twice, ‘Yeah, get it.’
~Richard Carpenter (of The Carpenters)

I go to Malawi twice a year. It’s where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It’s sort of a commitment that I’ve made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
~Madonna Ciccone

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Yes, it’s my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.
~Neon Hitch

But I still definitely go to H Mart probably like once or twice a week to get my groceries. It’s a very special place to me.
~Michelle Zauner (of Crying in H Mart)

You know how you toilet paper and egg somebody’s house? I did it, right? But I did it back-to-back nights, Saturday and Sunday. They called the police. Good thing nobody got arrested but that was something embarrassing and stupid. Why would you do the same house twice?
~Jared Dudley (NBA coach)

I feel like I’ve grown up with this sort of harsh exterior, where you need to watch your back because anybody is going to stab a knife in it and not think twice.
~Julianna Pena (UFC fighter, believable smile)

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
~Jo Nesbo (novelist/musician)

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette’s syndrome.
~Johnny Depp

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I’d done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I’d missed two years and was really far behind.
~Darcey Bussell

I’m not a great flyer. It’s ironic, since I’m in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.
~Suzi Quatro

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I played this character twice in live action, and now I’ve become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn ‒ I’ve never been a drawn character before.
~Geena Davis

Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.
~Johnny Colt

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I’ve been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
~Matthew Perry

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I’m amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.
~Sloane Crosley (writer)

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I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, ‘Baby, you don’t seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.’
~Kid Rock

I’ve broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I’ve broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles – my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.
~Donald Trump, Jr (severe mountain/dirt biking)

I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.
~Dove Cameron (singer/actor)

I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don’t regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
~Carlene Carter

I’m a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
~Paul Walker (actor, @40, sports car accident)

I’m the one twice over
I’m the new eleven
~Drake

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Hats are for life’s ultimate moments. They’re worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren’t royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.
~Philip Treacy

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that’s it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I’m only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.
~Emily Ratajkowski

I found myself at the beginning of ‘Mad Men,’ because I wasn’t a sample size [DD-DDD], spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say ‒ ‘Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.’
~Christina Hendricks

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
~Lucy Maud Montgomery

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God‒ never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass.
~Jennifer Aniston

It’s frustrating to not be able to wear the same dress twice, so I don’t have a go-to dress like all girls do. Renting is definitely going to be my new fashion obsession.
~Nikki Reed

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The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.
~Tom Ford

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I’m certain that he wouldn’t think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I’ll watch him closely at the next full moon. He’s asked me to go dancing tomorrow–perhaps I should wear a high collar. Oh, that’s vampires, isn’t it? I think I am a little giddy. (After meeting Mr Markham V Reynolds, Jr)
~Mary Ann Shaffer (in, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.
~Rick Owens

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Once or twice in the height of ‘Happy Days‘ excitement, which had more to do with Henry Winkler as The Fonz than ever had to do with me, we were kind of like a boy band for a year or so, and we would go out on personal appearances and feel the limousine rocking, and the grabbing at your clothes and people trying to steal your cap.
~Ron Howard

I’ve met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too… I have an idea or two.
~Ross Mathews (TV host)

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I was in ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice‘ with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you’re a little kid, that’s cool.
~Chuck Liddell (MMA)

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.
~Harrison Ford (actor)

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.
~Peyton Manning (NFL)

I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn’t hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.
~Curtis Joseph (WHA)

If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.
~Mike Evans (NFL)

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§ MUSIC:

I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called ‘You Only Live Twice.’ I’ll settle for that.
~Leslie Bricusse

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I’m so thankful that ‘fun.’ is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.
~Nate Ruess

I have my moments ‒ usually twice every album ‒ when I basically lose it.
~Chris Martin

When you’re playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
~Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe drummer, did)

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it’s really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
~Mick Jagger

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I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music ‒ I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It’s an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it’s been my only friend.
~Hunter Hayes (multi-instrumentalist)

I’d like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I’ve been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
~Roger McGuinn

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I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.
~Momo Hirai

I guess my favorite is ‘Blue Monday,’ but that wasn’t my biggest seller. The biggest was ‘Blueberry Hill’ and that’s the one I get the most requests for. I can’t get through a show without doing it once, and sometimes twice.
~Fats Domino

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I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don’t. The point is, you’ll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it’s really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!
~Zacky Vengeance

It’s only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I’m one of ’em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain’t nice; regardless of ya publishin’ deal, ya can’t write
~TI (comma added for clarity ~Ed Note)

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Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
~Brian McKnight

Here’s how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it’s music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
~John Lydon (Johnny Rotten/Sex Pistols)

I love music. I think it’s a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It’s a magical thing.
~Malik Bendjelloul

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The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
~Lucian Freud

Architecture falls between art and airports. It’s pragmatic‒it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.
~Ben van Berkel

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.
~Bill Brandt

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn’t endure.
~Robin Day (furniture design)

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Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It’s different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.
~Giada De Laurentiis

Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.
~Criss Jami

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If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can’t pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
~Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
~Paul Stamets

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.
~Paul Stamets

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
~Jamie Oliver

If I were on at seven at night and loved by millions of people at every age, I would think twice before telling an already obese nation that it’s OK to eat food that is killing us.
~Anthony Bourdain

Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
~Adriano Zumbo

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In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We’re wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We’re now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
~Nina Fedoroff

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
~Benjamin Franklin

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet’s projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
~Rose George

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A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
~Evan Esar

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I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you’re going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it’s also for Wednesday’s dinner.
~Curtis Stone

When my girlfriend’s away, I cook a big vat of meaty pasta and sauce and eat that for about a week. Then I eat out the rest of the time. When she’s home, we eat at home probably twice a week. I chop, she cooks.
~Paul Dano

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The first time I ever tried edamame, I thought it was gross. I didn’t understand the hairy skin. It didn’t taste good to me. Now I scarf down a bowl of edamame when I sit down at a restaurant, and I don’t think twice about it.
~Zal Batmanglij

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I’m not a great meat eater ‒ I eat it twice a week. But I can’t stand fish ‒ my mother says it’s because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.
~Chris de Burgh

I’m a big juicer, and I believe in juicing most vegetables and fruit, which I do twice a day.
~Tito Ortiz

I relish tea, but I am not an addict. Twice a day is fine.
~Himesh Reshammiya

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
~Alice Waters

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I prefer turkey to other potential sandwich meats. Turkey is delicious, and the turkey and cheese sandwich is my personal favorite. It doesn’t upset my stomach, and I like to have it once or twice week.
~Stephen A Smith

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon. But it’s nice to have a few bites of something you like. I’m not a sweets person, but I love pasta and pizza ‒ oh, buddy!
~Carrie Underwood

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~Christina Aguilera: T wice (4:02) muted visuals

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~Great White: Once Bitten, Twice Shy (4:32) big-hair band w/ groupies

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~Soledad Violeta: Béke • Love Me Twice (4:28) sophisticated twist on love

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~Natalia: Alex Greif • I Think Twice (4:13) gay, male this time

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There’s got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it’s the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there’s someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.
~Jodi Picoult

I’ve been asked twice to go on ‘The Bachelor‘ ‒ and once in Canada as well ‒and I was like, ‘It would literally be my nightmare to be put on display and dated out.’ It’s the opposite of anything I have ever wanted.
~Jonathan Scott

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I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it’s enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing.
~Alex Karpovsky

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he’s going to cut it in half anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
~John Spence

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You don’t even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.
~Drake

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To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned…. They may just have something there…. If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can’t use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.
~Malcolm Forbes

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.
~Bob Marley

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By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it’s one way to just say that, you know, ‘We’re members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.’
~George Takei

There are still so many misconceptions out there, including that gays come from bad families. Maybe I don’t completely change people’s minds, but I make them think twice.
~Candace Gingrich-Jones

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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
~Jane Leavy

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It’s like, in real life, I’ve got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who’s twice their age, and they’re equally in love.
~Margot Robbie

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
~John Donne

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love ‒ first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~Albert Camus

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Women are always complaining about men’s fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
~Jonathan Carroll

My only advice is don’t tattoo some guy’s name on yourself. Ever. I’ve done it twice. Twice! I’m in the process of getting both removed. It’s the most painful thing imaginable.
~Diora Baird

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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
~B B King

I’ve already been married six times in my career as an actress ‒ twice as Becky ‒ so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!
~Katherine Kelly

I don’t need to marry again. I’ve been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we’re 80 and marriages are jolly long.
~Joanna Trollope

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice ‒ to make the average good.
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Love doesn’t think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.
~Celine Dion

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock [suicide, 1944, @29]. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
~J Robert Oppenheimer

Look twice before you leap.
~Charlotte Bronte

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~Sophia Loren

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn’t be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.
~Hugh Hefner

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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
~Ellen G White

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.
~Emilia Clarke

‘Twice Born‘ I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I’m going to look when I’m fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.
~Penelope Cruz

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
~Vanessa Carlton (pianist/singer/actor)

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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn’t cry. I probably cried over my mum’s illness twice.
~Jack Osbourne (media personality)

In 1974, I cried all day long. I kept putting my well arm next to my left one, which could not move. My mother kept saying, ‘Don’t be sad. If you cry, I will cry and then we will all be twice as sad.’
~Phan Thi Kim Phuc

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
~Susanne Bier

I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of her child and the death of her brother, and, you know, just a lot of tragedy, and she’s still the happiest person I’ve ever met.
~Frances Bean Cobain

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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the ‘Simpsons.’ I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
~Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
~Barry White

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.
~David Lammy

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My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, ‘Garden, Papa!’ and then he eats what he picks.
~Alain Ducasse

I’ve gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to be an orphan,’ so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
~Mandy Moore

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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
~Erma Bombeck (family-friendly columnist)

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart ‒ adult strides ‒ and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
~Gary Lineker

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I’ve had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
~Jamie Foxx (black actor/comic)

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.
~Ted Deutch

I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.
~Mark Feehily

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don’t expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.
~Ivanka Trump

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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
~Michael Caine

…an old man is twice a child.
~William Shakespeare

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Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly — first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it’s simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what’s possible.
~Tammy Baldwin (war-crippled Senator)

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The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.
~Amanda de Cadenet

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
~Fannie Hurst

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
~Charlotte Whitton

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
~Virginia Woolf

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
~Godfrey Winn

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If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.
~Arthur Mitchell

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I thought, while they’re up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

I’ve always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I’ve been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
~Laurie Graham

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I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women’s lib.
~Harry Harlow

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.
~Gloria Steinem

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‘Clown‘ was written when I couldn’t find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.
~Emeli Sande

‘Chewing Gum Dreams‘ should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
~Michaela Coel

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I’ve twice run against women opponents, and it’s a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there’s a level of respect… You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
~Mike Huckabee

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
~Josh Bowman

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don’t feel as if I wasn’t given opportunities.
~Lorene Scafaria (filmmaker/actor)

Not wearing make-up? I can do it, and don’t think twice.
~Tyra Banks

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We thought by setting the film [“Selling Isobel“] in the cloak of… let’s call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, “Hang on, I’ve got to think twice about what I get myself into.”
~Rudolf Buitendach (a true crime story)

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I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I’ve been twice a government secretary, I’ve been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
~Josefina Vazquez Mota (Mexico)

Many of my movies have strong female leads ‒ brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
~Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese)

I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.
~Arundhati Roy (Indian)

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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser. ~Confucius Say

With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.
~Rodney Dangerfield

If love means never having to say you’re sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
~Estelle Getty

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.
~Groucho Marx

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~H L Mencken

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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
~Catherine Drinker Bowen

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
~Joseph Lelyveld

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Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
~David Walton

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.
~Steve Sabol

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Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia’s intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
~Tim Cope (Aussie adventurer)

India now has serious fashion consumers who do not think twice before splurging on an expensive luxury product.
~Priya Sachdev

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I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I’m guessing, I’ll spend more time back there as I get older.
~Dave Matthews

I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I’ve played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.
~Kenneth Cranham

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I’ve lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
~Ellen Burstyn

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.
~Ronny Chieng

The Dutch people in general are pretty chill about parenting, as well as ‒ everything. I would be more chill, too, if I had universal health care and the only road rage I experienced was someone ringing their bicycle bell twice.
~Michelle Buteau

I don’t think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.
~Carrie Brownstein

I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It’s kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don’t have anything holding me back. I don’t have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I’ll go. But I’ve lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.
~Jessica White

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Bridge
© Greg Thweatt

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I never know what I’m going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I’ll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads.
~Harlan Ellison

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I’m on the air, I’m very unscripted, and I’m very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.
~Ashleigh Banfield

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
~Chuck D

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
~Van Morrison

You can’t keep going back to Detroit because you’re big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can’t go back twice in the same year.
~John Waite

It’s very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We’ll never do another ‘Gates.’ Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.
~Christo

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Maitre D’: I appreciate your understanding.
Ferris: Don’t think twice. It’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.
~John Hughes

That’s the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I’d change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.
~Stephanie Klein

There are those who open their hearts to others…who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.
~Gilda Radner

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.
~Dawna Markova

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@Writers Platform:

People who keep journals have life twice
~Jessamyn West

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
~Anais Nin

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
~Khalil Gibran

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No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
~Marina Tsvetaeva

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
~John Barton

My girlfriend has read all the ‘Game of Thrones‘ books ‒ twice.
~Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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‘Star Wars‘ was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing with the toys in your backyard, that’s where you’re first telling stories in your head.
~Rian Johnson (filmmaker)

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write ‒ on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
~Edward P Jones

The above quote is understandable to a writer, but the imagination wants to ask about the what and how of pen and ink.
~Ed Note

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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation.
~Margaret Halsey

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply…
~William Golding

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I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming-of-age baseball novel, ‘Scooter.’
~Mick Foley (comedian/author)

My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson’s out there saying, ‘Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?’
~Doris Kearns Goodwin

My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it’s artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that’s something which is all too easy to do in series books.
~Geraldine McCaughrean

I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn’t increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
~Seth Godin

Each edition of the Post & Review is researched and assembled out of the editor’s interest, and for his edification. This privilege is paid for, and no money is made; but note has been taken of the above.
~Ed Note

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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
~Dan Hawkins (guitarist)

I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books.
~Poppy

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
~Gracie Allen

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
~Cyril Connolly

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Headlines twice the size of the events.
~John Galsworthy

My problem is winding down rather than staying awake. Eating together and watching a bit of TV with the family helps, and twice a week I go for a run.
~Cathy Newman (journalist)

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Today’s tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it’s a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it’s very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be. (@satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in 2015, post-massacre)
~Conan O’Brien

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
~Walter Cronkite

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§ The Occasional Corner: Don’t Think Twice

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.
~Bob Dylan

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~Billy Strings (3:17) guitar and vocals, worthy of…

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~Caro D (3:43) delivered drunk, a little, perhaps… uniquely expressive

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~Filler Reference (3:00) if the Chipmunks gave it a try

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~Rainbow Girls, ft Cheyenne Skye (3:43) joyous

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~jaririchards99utube: Peter Paul and Mary (3:23) classic

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~Tedeschi Trucks Band, ft Amy Ray (6:46) multi-instrumental/dimensional

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~GtrWorkShp: Doc & Merle Watson (3:30) authentic country/folk

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~The Brothers Comatose x Sweet Sally (2:52) a talented neighbors & family feel

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~Mark Gaffney: E Clapton ‒ B Dylan (6:02) iconic

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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There’s a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
~Alice McDermott

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord’s day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord’s Day.
~Martin Chemnitz

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Religion is no longer a connection point for most people. Our communities were built on coming together in physical locations once a week or twice a week. These institutions have dissipated.
~Miguel McKelvey

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women’s groups, but they don’t think twice about something that might offend Christians.
~Tim LaHaye

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I was a very religious child ‒ I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good ‒ I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
~Yehuda Amichai

And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
~James Merrill

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Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once
~Chuck Missler

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
~Plato

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Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they’ll get that because they’ve actually done an experiment that was interesting.
~Aubrey de Grey

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The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‘Doctor Who.’ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.
~Terry Pratchett

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
~Paul Davies

AI? If those machines know all the histories and religions, and can piece them together in their little electric minds, then they know. They know we are not alone. They know we are under some source… some sort of direction. I’d bet twice everything you own on this. Because I am It.
~St Rumpet

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It’s important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don’t have that in space.
~Mark Kelly

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
~Buzz Aldrin

I’ve been lucky enough to fly to space twice.
~Chris Hadfield (Space Oddity)

One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.
~Seth Shostak

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I’m an e-mail junkie though I’m trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.
~Judy Blume

I delete Instagram from my phone probably twice a week.
~Jenna Ortega

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren’t that many things people use twice a day.
~Larry Page

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I’ve used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don’t know it.
~Laura Hillenbrand

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!
~Craig Bruce

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When you’re the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that’s half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does ‒ or can.
~Brian Krzanich (Intel)

I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they’re very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.
~Chris Claremont

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
~Bill Gates

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.
~Daniel Radcliffe

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception ‒ they experience extreme realism.
~Charles Platt

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Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
~Neri Oxman

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years ‒ about twice as long as other bears ‒ between having cubs. And after they’re pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.
~Gloria Steinem

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
~Carl Van Vechten

I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop!
~Jonah Goldberg

All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot ‘merchandise’!!!
~Adela Popescu

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I’ve read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.
~Bryan Fuller

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn’t think twice. Give back life. Don’t eat meat.
~Kim Basinger

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That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
~Robert Browning

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
~David Attenborough

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I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to ‒ ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. ‘Peak Practice‘ became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.
~Joe Dempsie

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John’s, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
~Hans Rosling (physician/academic)

To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.
~Ellen Glasgow

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.
~John Katzman

To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert

If you’re smart, you’ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there’ll always be somebody who’s never read a book who’ll know twice what you know.
~David Duchovny

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Flatulence peaks twice a day… five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.
~Mary Roach

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
~William Osler

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They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you’re a chef means you have to work twice as hard.
~Marcus Samuelsson

You probably don’t think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.
~Kathy Calvin

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Twice a week I would receive injections or IV’s of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
~Ryan White (for Hemophilia A)

I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
~Magic Johnson

I have friends who don’t even know I’m diabetic. I don’t hide it, but it’s the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That’s how I deal with it.
~Lucy Davis

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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
~Annette Funicello

I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn’t believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.
~Solange Knowles

I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly just wash my face and try to not touch my face because that’s when you get pimples.
~Sara Paxton

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you’re more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I’ve personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.
~Suzanne Somers

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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you’ve run delirium’s course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
~Floyd Skloot

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.
~Travis Bradberry

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I’m only 5’7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn’t active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
~Jerry Ferrara

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§ The Exercise:

forecast

long shadows granted
twice grace the day
one each end
skies in want of medicine
bleeding alone

day follows night
sunsets before sunrise
or is it otherwise
disease or remedy, pain or its pill
each day to be swallowed, taken as one

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love lore

once a fortnight fits a month twice
pondering three times is weighing it thrice
but making it four wives is throwing the dice
buried in dirt or accolades with rice
taking the high road is heeding advice

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5s ‘n 7s

just suppose it’s the artist
made witness to interpret
humanity for the stars
twice pay the price for it
lose bias, find life alone

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hope for a third try
it hasn’t worked twice
can’t be a fourth time
won’t be drinking it
be pleading the 5th

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lost lesson learned twice
single mallard overhead
worth two on the pond
ducking heads underwater
while the traveler moves on

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given the choice of
finding answer sure but twice
one time wrong, once right
might one find both times the same
poles a-part of being One

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twice they’ve driven by
looking suspicious as hell
truth is, they were lost
why they looked so familiar
cuz, we be some lost ones too

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live down twice one great regret
after, and thereafter that
ask not what but why the need
sacred wins and secret sins
both to fill the whole of truth

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useful tasteful utensil
prehensile, still essential
varied and consenual
return sexy to sensual
lasting pen over pencil
and freeform over stencil
persuaded by potential

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i love you, i do
twice lies, wish it otherwise
too polite for truth

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like old memories
and reporters twice removed
youth and truth are gone

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.
~Brian Kernighan

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
~Paulo Coelho

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Mistakes don’t scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I’ve really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it’s just as important to know what doesn’t work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.
~Garth Brooks

Don’t ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
~Mae West

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Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.
~Michael Jackson

A good example has twice the value of good advice.
~Albert Schweitzer

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Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
~Arthur Leonard Schawlow

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
~Simon Bolivar

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
~Randall Terry

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice … strike three.
~Steve Carell.

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Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
~Arthur Leonard Schawlow

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
~Simon Bolivar

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Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.
~Robin Sharma

All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation.
~Stephen Covey

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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
~Alice Childress

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
~Morrie Schwartz

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Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.
~Reid Scott (actor)

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.
~Ray Bradbury

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When you multitask, you believe you’re being exceptionally productive, but really, you’re fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what’s next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
~Karen Finerman

Don’t think twice, it’s alright.
~Bob Dylan

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Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.
~Kevin James

Think twice; it’s just another day for you and me in paradise.
~Phil Collins

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If you don’t have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I’ve told you to make it. Twice. The first time you’ll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.
~Tom Douglas

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
~Plato

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I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn’t do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths.
~Queen Latifah

I’m here to break boundaries, man. That’s all. I’m here to be the first so that the people after me don’t have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.
~A$AP Rocky

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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
~Simon Cowell

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
~Anthony Burgess

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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
~Ozzy Osbourne (Royal Variety Performance, Queen Elizabeth II)

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
~Gloria Estefan

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If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
~Lila Acheson Wallace (fndr, Reader’s Digest)

When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals… it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.
~Darby Stanchfield

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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak.
Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
~Bill Watterson

Andy Clark refers to humans as ‘natural-born cyborgs.’ What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
~Karl Schroeder

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Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone… the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
~J Michael Straczynski

I haven’t always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn’t make that same mistake twice, and I think that’s what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what’s really valuable in life.
~Sandra Bullock

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George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they’re respected and they were twice as crazy as I’ll ever be.
~Hank Williams III

I honestly don’t think twice about a relationship with people who don’t reciprocate respect.
~Porsha Williams

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If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
~Jim Croce

I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
~Mae West

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If you don’t have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I’ve told you to make it. Twice. The first time you’ll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.
~Tom Douglas

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
~Virgil Thomson

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Retired is being tired twice, I’ve thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
~Richard Armour

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez

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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~Jean de La Fontaine

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I’ve always heard people’s criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
~Sam Raimi

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
~Will Rogers

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://azquotes.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi’s Video Harvest
https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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THIS EDITION: code

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Quoted In The Grove:

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one’s conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.
~Khushwant Singh

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.
~Elizabeth Lesser

I’m interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers ‒ or sometimes multiple answers. It’s here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I’m also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
~Taryn Simon

EndQuote:
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us.
~Helen Oyeyemi

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Next Exercise Prompt: clear

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As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is superior, intelligent harmonization, it must be played so that the local intelligence is taught or shown how it works in such a manner that it comes to its own conclusions. In other words, the galactic code of honor is to manifest and demonstrate harmony by whatever means possible.
~Jose Arguelles

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism [priesthood].
~H L Mencken

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
~Augusto Roa Bastos

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It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.
~Jim Mattis (ex-Sec Defense)

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
~Will Durant (historian)

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
~Erno Rubik (inventor)

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… it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity … it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.
~Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.
~Katharine Fullerton Gerould

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
~Barbara Tuchman

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Here is Menard’s own intimate forest: ‘Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade…I live in great density…Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage…In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.’
~Gaston Bachelard

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
~Jose Ortega y Gasset

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.
~Jacques Yves Cousteau

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It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don’t let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
~Isabel Allende (Chilean writer)

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.
~Jacques Barzun

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Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.
~SE Cupp

The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation — 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God — 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians — 7,000,000 words — and growing!
~Steve Forbes

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you’d find at least one sex scene . . .
~Dave Barry

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I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
~Tim Berners-Lee

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.
~Rebecca MacKinnon

We mustn’t forget we chose the name ‘WWW’ before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.
~Robert Cailliau

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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!
~Anton Szandor LaVey

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
~Sigrid Undset

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Posted From The Grove

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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it’s all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.
~Andrew O’Hagan

In American politics, ‘Europe’ is usually a code word for ‘big government.’
~James Surowiecki

Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we’ve never seen in the history of this country.
~Rick Perry

A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.
~Jeb Bush

I am very concerned about anything that says ‘revenue’ because let’s just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.
~Jim Jordan

‘Empathy’ is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn’t pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
~Karl Rove

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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that’s got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
~Jim Hightower

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that’s failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let’s help average people. Let’s be Democrats.
~Dick Gephardt

I am asking that every American everywhere, in every state, in every zip code have the same opportunities and the same right to live.
~Raphael Warnock

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Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
~Kevin McCarthy

The core hacker premise that ‘code wins arguments’ is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.
~Glenn Kelman

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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~Albert Claude (1899-1983)

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.
~Michael Madigan

Stepping in stink, that how you see it? You think a golden idol ‒I mean that gold statue there‒ of a sitting President on a gold Throne sends the wrong message, that it doesn’t meet the… the what, decency code? then you’re thinking the wrong Throne, my low-wattage friend. Buffoon you just earned the Gold T*rd Award ‒home groan I might add‒ makes America great again!
~D T Rump

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Disclaimer: The following Pseudonyms have been used, at various times, in the place of fictional politicians addressing specific issues. These are not meant as reflections of anyone imaginable, living or otherwise.
~Ed Note

~T Rumpledthinskin: personal observations on Self-hood and fame
~St Rumpet: addressing spiritual issues, not the Scarlet who’re in Babble-On
~D T Rump: digests internal workings of gov’t, with loose laws emerging

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The Oval Office symbolizes… the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.
~Andrew Card

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there’s anything coercive or abusive going on.
~Jane Mayer

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it’s war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.
~Susan Sarandon

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When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~Frederic Bastiat

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
~Tamora Fierce

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What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.
~David A Clarke, Jr

Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.
~Emma Goldman

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By granting 4 million undocumented immigrants social security numbers that can potentially be misused through loopholes in our tax code and voting laws, President Obama is poisoning the waters of public perception and reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos and all immigrants.
~Rachel Campos-Duffy

Homeland defense doesn’t generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.
~Thomas PM Barnett (geostrategist)

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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
~M Stanton Evans

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.
~Michelle Alexander

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… the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
~Mary Barnett Gilson

Donald Trump’s election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.
~Bari Weiss (CBS news)

What stalwart Republican would stop Trump from profiteering for his businesses from the White House the way he’s gamed his companies and the tax code for decades, or prevent him from letting his adult children milk their father’s position to benefit his supposed ‘blind trust?’
~Joy Reid

Opponents criticize Trump for not acting presidential enough; all the while, Obama created and perpetuates the presidential code to demean, disdain and diminish others in light of esteeming himself.
~Chuck Norris

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We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist ‘has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.’ This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.
~Ezra Taft Benson (ex-Sec Agriculture under Eisenhower, 13th pres, Mormons)

Politicians, in many cases ‒ their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you’re out of office, I guess you’re freed from those checks and balances.
~Mark Leibovich

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Washington, ‘delay’ is too often code for ‘derail.’ Wink, wink.
~Peter Welch

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The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and universal insights into patterns of human behavior, be it consumer spending, criminal or terrorist acts, healthy habits, or employee productivity. But many big-data evangelists avoid taking a hard look at the weaknesses.
~Kate Crawford

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The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.
~Robert Zubrin

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Our children… deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I’m determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid ‒ in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity ‒ is able to live a life of safety.
~Lori Lightfoot (Chicago)

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city’s first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
~Laura Miller (Dallas)

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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
~Harold H Greene

You can’t use the tax code as a penal system because you don’t like what a country is doing.
~John Layfield

As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court.
~George Wallace (ex-Gov, Alabama)

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The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavouring to develop them.
~Adolf Hitler

A better principle than this, that “the majority shall rule,” is this other, that justice shall rule. “Justice,” says the code of Justinian, “is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
~Mahatma Gandhi (non-violent protest)

A Christian’s first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them… If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease… it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.
~Mark Twain

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day’s work.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (in the way of Solomon, Lincoln, Churchill, Havel)

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Content zips around the Internet thanks to code ‒ programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
~Jonathan Zittrain

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Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn’t have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn’t matter what you say or how you say it.
~Molly Ivins

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.
~Edward Jenks

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.
~Saxby Chambliss

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It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
~Robert Morrison MacIver

And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.
~Clarence Thomas (SCJ)

A binding code of ethics is pretty standard for judges.
~Ketanji Brown Jackson (SCJ)

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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world* begins, as it ends, with a Code.
~Henry James Sumner (Brit jurist/historian)

Roman Jurisprudence began with the ‘Twelve Tables‘, and concluded with the ‘Code of Justinian.’
~AI

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
~Mark Steyn

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
~William O Douglas (SCJ)

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.
~Boyd Rice

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What is human warfare but just this, ‒ an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.
~Henry David Thoreau

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
~John Cena

I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander’s authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
~Tammy Duckworth

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
~Ambrose Bierce

We are all members of the same great family … On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.
~John A Lejeune (Lt Gen, US Marines)

We are Jewish soldiers. Our battle orders include the rules of engagement and the Ten Commandments. The computer code of the F-35 and the moral code of the prophets of Israel.
~Benny Gantz

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not ‘honor’ but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
~Mercedes Lackey

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Moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.
~Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic feminist)

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It’s a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There’s no moral code, it’s just about successful business for America.
~Chuck D

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
~W E B Du Bois

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
~James Fenimore Cooper

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If you don’t know about the ‘black male code,’ you should. It’s something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you’re not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you’re wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.
~Donna Brazile

I’ve done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I’ve been asked to ‘be blacker.’ That’s code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.
~Nicole Byer

I’m kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they’re written ‘normal,’ which is just code for white.
~Jesse Williams

Being bicultural and bilingual gave me an opportunity growing up to code switch, culture switch, understanding how people do things differently, but it doesn’t mean badly. If anything, you add value to the conversation.
~Miguel Cardona

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
~W E B Du Bois

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It’s a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There’s no moral code, it’s just about successful business for America.
~Chuck D

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.
~Nawal El Saadawi

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I’ve been told that I wasn’t Latino enough, which was code for ‘street’ enough.
~Jimmy Smits

I’ve done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I’ve been asked to ‘be blacker.’ That’s code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.
~Nicole Byer

I’m kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they’re written ‘normal,’ which is just code for white.
~Jesse Williams

what has been termed ‘correct’ English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
~Dale Spender

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America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is ‘race.’
~Paul Mooney

In the mix and muddle of the word ‘America’, at the beginning and end, and in the middle of America, are all the letters for race, embedded and absorbed as they were meant to be.
~Ed Note

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
~James Fenimore Cooper

If you don’t know about the ‘black male code,’ you should. It’s something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you’re not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you’re wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.
~Donna Brazile

*X In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
~Kathleen Battle

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~Revert’s Journey: SCIENTIST MURDERED After Proving Quran’s Code 19 (11:27)
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The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.
~Paul Allen

Once you learn to ‘speak’ money ‒ which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write ‘Whoops!’ ‒ you start to see it at work all around you. It’s like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it’s in flow all around us, all the time.
~John Lanchester

Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO’s who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google’s algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad?
~Michael Gray

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
~Sam Altman

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Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
~Mike Crapo

Simplifying the tax code and reducing administrative burdens will save small businesses money and time and let owners and employees focus less on paperwork and more on how to operate in this tough economy.
~Suzan DelBene

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
~Kevin McCarthy

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It’s a rule when you’re welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you’re going to be living in a code of silence.
~Maurissa Tancharoen

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they’ll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.
~Dee Hock (VISA)

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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the ‘no’ ‒ and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the ‘no.’
~Brian Grazer

I used to be a computer engineer, and I can make really good code, and we can make systems that work really well, and we can make the application a great experience, but when you have to translate bits to atoms, you need folks who are used to working with city governments, with state governments, and so I like to say we’re in a political campaign.
~Travis Kalanick (Uber)

Advertising isn’t just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
~Jan Koum

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In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, ‘It will preserve jobs.’
~Elizabeth Warren

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
~Tim Holden

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Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.
~Naval Ravikant

We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
~Naval Ravikant

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Internally, we’re focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that’s out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we’ve written and all the invention we’ve created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.
~Brendan Iribe (Sesame AI)

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.
~Daniel Lyons

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Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
~Vladimir Potanin

I’ve always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That’s how Facebook started, after all.
~John Battelle

There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
~Adeo Ressi

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In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.
~Kamala Harris

Part of the success of Girls Who Code is that I am a hustler. When people ask what my biggest strength is, it’s that I’m shameless. I will ask people for help even when I don’t know them.
~Reshma Saujani

I’ve known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn’t know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don’t know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.
~Harvey Mackay

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A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according to high ethical standards. It must be self-policing. Without such a code, a professional soldier or a group soon loses identity and effectiveness. Once we know our job, have a genuine code of ethics, and maintain unquestioned personal integrity, we have met the first and most demanding challenge of leadership.
~Silas L Copeland

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.
~Chester Barnard

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Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.
~Mark Zuckerberg

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don’t have much time to code any more.
~Eric Allman (Sendmail, ’70s-’80s)

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.
~Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.
~Ken Auletta

I’m kind of a retired software engineer. I don’t write code anymore.
~Paul Allen

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Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That’s why it’s important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.
~Douglas Conant

Anyone can replicate a product. There are lots of brilliant minds out there that know how to code, but there’s unique DNA to a brand. You cannot have a brand without people. That is the most important asset you will ever have.
~Whitney Wolfe Herd

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If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn’t common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
~Glenn Beck

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
~Jim Bridenstine

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code’s complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity.
~Richard Neal

That’s the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
~Herman Cain

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I don’t blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.
~Lindsey Graham

I doubt God would want to touch America’s tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
~Larry J Sabato

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What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, ‘Let’s just grab money from, quote, the wealthy’… The issue is the tax code’s rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
~Barry Diller

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
~David Plouffe (under Obama)

Obama’s view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.
~John Sununu

It’s time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.
~Ari Fleischer

The government doesn’t want us to have weapons and yet, they have weapons. I think the biggest weapon they have is the IRS ‒ Internal Revenue Service. They can use taxes as a weapon, and the IRS code that you can’t even figure it out.
~Glenn B

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.
~Jim Bridenstine

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it’s important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
~Charles Boustany

Here’s what I don’t think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
~Michael Moore

If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn’t have the power to do you any favors. That’s what we need. You would have to compete on your own on a level playing field, but that’s not what the government permits now.
~Dan Bongino

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
~Barry Diller

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
~Bill Bradley

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The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the professional political class has hijacked that authority to rig up a tax code that provides for the well-being of Washington, not the country.
~Josh Hawley

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
~Dennis Kucinich (2003 ‒ Iraq war)

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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
~Ari Fleischer

We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
~Xavier Becerra

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
~Chuck Grassley (President pro tempore, US Senate)

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I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
~Bill Foster

The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority [rich] than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
~Tucker Carlson

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we’re going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.
~Herman Cain

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we’ve got to simplify our tax code.
~Marco Rubio

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
~Charles B Rangel

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The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
~Ben Bernanke (ex-Chair, the Fed)

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord’s Prayer.
~William Proxmire (of Sen Russell Long)

California’s Depression-era lawmakers, who created our sales, use and personal income tax laws, thought it was wrong to double-tax goods and services. When drafting the state’s sales tax code, they used the precise phrase ‘tangible goods’ to avoid any excess taxation.
~Michelle Steel

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Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn’t single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.
~James B Stewart

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That’s about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It’s not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
~Sheldon Whitehouse

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The current tax code is a daily mugging.
~Ronald Reagan

Our tax code isn’t perfect. Far from it.
~Colin Allred

It’s not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it’s code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.
~Ziad K Abdelnour

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
~Herman Cain

Start by scrapping the tax code. Don’t fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.
~Steve Forbes (2005)

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
~Grover Norquist

I don’t know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.
~Matt Gaetz

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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
~Richard Neal

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
~Heather Bresch

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Bad guys are complicated characters. It’s always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don’t have a heroic code you have to live by.
~Peter Dinklage

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he’s made a decision that he’s going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He’s decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.
~Tom Ellis

When I first auditioned for Dexter… Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it’s the type of programming that I like to watch. It’s that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who’s really an awful person, but… is he doing good? You’re constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.
~Julie Benz

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I can’t play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
~Will Patton

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, ‘What is the story that we’re telling?’ ‘What are the clues in the text that I can find that will help inform what story we’re telling?’ It’s almost like a detective mystery.
~Phillipa Soo

I think Bond the character is distinct: He’s British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he’s incorruptible… he’s a classical hero, but he’s also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he’s a romantic.
~Barbara Broccoli

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you’ve got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.
~Jeffrey Wright

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When you look at the early-’30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies ‒ the good ones, the ones done by the best directors ‒ the acting is very, very natural
~Michel Hazanavicius

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
~Jennifer Beals

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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
~Roger Ebert

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’
~Jason Momoa

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
~Aaron Eckhart

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western ‒ the drifter who comes into town with secrets ‒ I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.
~Simon Toyne

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.
~Jim Jarmusch

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Telling Alan Turing’s story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.
~Graham Moore

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick ‒ a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick ‒ 16 days.
~Mike Figgis

I will say that ‘Source Code‘ proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.
~Michelle Monaghan

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I remember the show was just so relaxed because no one knew what the show was; we used the words ‘Stranger Things‘ on all the sides, and all the cast names. Then in Season 2, you used code names for everything, and they just had to up the security.
~Noah Schnapp

When we were doing ‘The Sopranos‘, I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It’s a code among sociopaths.
~David Chase

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The term “godawful” should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.
~James Berardinelli

I’m not really a sequel guy. I did ‘Angels & Demons‘ after ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.
~Ron Howard

Tom Hanks, who starred in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
~Steven Pinker

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I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called “Skyscraper Souls” which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.
~Mike Royer (ruthless owner of world’s tallest)

Once, I’d written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me–I swear–“The puff of smoke is too big.” Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.
~Stan Lee

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.
~William Wyler

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The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.
~Jessica Savitch (NBC news)

We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.
~Benjamin Netanyahu

The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of “No worries, mate,” while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
~Pico Iyer

The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I’ve ever encountered. There is a code called ‘Pashtunwali,’ so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.
~Brad Thor

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they’re dead.
~David Henry Hwang

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
~Vladimir Putin

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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren’t aware of manners and other ways of life and ‘common decency.’
~Derek Blasberg

Maine Accents aren’t accents, they’re language It’s almost like a code. Because that’s the key to who you are: it’s how you express who you are. And how you express who you are is how you speak.
~Rege-Jean Page

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
~Samuel Freeman Miller

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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates’ list for office.
~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
~Nawal El Saadawi

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I need to crack the Mumbai traffic code ‒ if I leave early, under the assumption that there will be traffic, I get completely clear roads and reach an hour before my meeting, and then because I can’t find parking I end up having to walk anyway.
~Saqib Saleem

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
~Christian Louboutin

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My perfect beach town isn’t a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It’s a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants ‒ where the island-wide dress code is ‘no shoes, no shirt, no problem.’
~Mary Kay Andrews

I would say L.A. is more polite than London ‒ it’s a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
~Tom Hooper

I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don’t know.
~Iris Apfel

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.
~Dion DiMucci

*X I loved ‘Chicago Code;’ I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city ‒ I’m from Chicago, too.
~Jessy Schram

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~Omeleto: Utopia (15:03) Russian subtitles, interestingly

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~ella janes: Code Red (13:52) coming of age, it’s complicated

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I was already writing ‘The Lost Symbol‘ when I started to realize ‘The Da Vinci Code‘ would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who’s had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
~Dan Brown

I’m not a car person. Three years after ‘The Da Vinci Code‘ came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, ‘Why don’t you have a Maserati?’ It never occurred to me. It wasn’t a priority for me. I just didn’t care.
~Dan Brown

In sociology, they call it ‘code switching.’ I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don’t look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
~Amy Sherald (portrait artist)

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He’s so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.
~Earl Wilson (MLB)

For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we’re all the same, we’re all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.
~Tom Hiddleston

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It’s kind of a catch-22 now because since the ‘Da Vinci Code,’ I have access to places and people that I didn’t have access to before, so that’s a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I’m always trying to keep a secret. I don’t want people to know what I’m writing about.
~Dan Brown

There’s even a feature on my website where you can translate messages into codes, so whenever I have any big news it goes out in code first so the diehard fans are the first to know.
~Nina Nesbitt (Scot musician)

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Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.
~Felicia Day

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.
~Gulzar

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We talk in code sometimes, we finish each other’s sentences. The first interview I ever did on the radio was with Neneh. I don’t think anybody could understand it. She was like, ‘You know when I was going to… ‘ And I’d say, ‘New Zealand, yeah.’ We were just giggling on the radio for half an hour.
~Andi Oliver (Neneh and Andi Dish it Up)

I kind of lived by the code of ‘I’m going to be a hard-working guy.’ And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That’s kind of the drive I live on.
~George Karl (NBA player/coach)

In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis’ communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?
~Alan K Simpson

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn’t very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
~Randall Munroe (cartoonist/writer)

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As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do ‒ I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents’ car battery… and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
~Ryan Holmes (Hootsuite)

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don’t remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don’t remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.
~Tommy Lasorda

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I’m buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I’m certainly introverted.
~David Karp

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The one thing I say, I will invest in anything ‒ I don’t care what it is ‒ as long as it doesn’t cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.
~Deborah Meaden

I’m a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.
~Earl Sweatshirt

I don’t want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
~Michael Moore

I’m a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don’t lie.
~Jerry Weintraub

I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and ace communicator.
~Rush Limbaugh

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It’s very important to me. I’ve got a bad temper.
~Henry Rollins

Don’t violate your own code of values and ethics, but don’t waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
~Melody Beattie

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We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.
~Tom Perez

I think it’s important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There’s no code, there’s no craft… it’s just let yourself shine through your music. If it’s meant to be loved and heard, it’ll happen.
~Chantal Kreviazuk

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
~Yo-Yo Ma

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It’s like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I’m talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn’t even cutting it, I’m taking a TV dinner and I’m getting in bed here.
~Mary Chapin Carpenter (on touring?)

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The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn’t find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
~Rosie O’Donnell

Metal has its own code of cool, but it’s not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.
~John Darnielle

I’d rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
~Lee Ranaldo

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The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.
~Frances Arnold

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
~Vangelis

When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven’t cracked the code.
~Troy Carter

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I’ve been very lucky with The Code‘ and Manhattan‘ in that I’ve been working with networks that are deeply supportive of the authorial voice.
~Ashley Zukerman (actor)

As an artiste, I like things to be interactive and like the audience to get involved in cracking the code, as it were. I like to show them my art, but…
~Rakshit Shetty (filmmaker)

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.
~Frank Ocean (black musician)

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At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that’s just my definition.
~Kurt Busiek

George Lucas should have distributed the ‘source code’ to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.
~Gabe Newell

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren’t any shortcuts. You can’t write an algorithm for it. You can’t predict it. You can’t code it.
~Shawn Amos

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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
~Kenneth Frampton

Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
~Santiago Calatrava

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The photographic image… is a message without a code.
~Roland Barthes

I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you’re not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that’s a kind of serious moral issue.
~Ricky Jay

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To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.
~Dave Gibbons

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
~George A Romero (Night of the Living Dead)

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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
~Albert Camus

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.
~Ayn Rand

There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man’s inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.
~Ayn Rand

Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insane inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
~Herbert Spencer (Brit polymath, 1820-1903)

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At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
~Walter Lippmann

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
~C S Lewis

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it’s all backwards. It’s not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.
~Tana French

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.
~Charles Dickens

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~Eurovision Song Contest: Nemo • The Code (3:13) …and a magic disc

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~We Are The Warriors: Warrior’s Code (3:16) drenched, washed, rinsed in testosterone

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~LOFTmusic: The Manhattan Transfer • Morse Code of Love (2:44) the pros having fun at work

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~Jonathan Coulton: Code Monkey (3:48) primitive animation, still fun

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~David Lee Murphy: No Zip Code (3:05) somewhere country

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~Gang Starr: Code Of The Street (3:39) hoods from the hood under the hood

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~Grace & Riddim: Snoop Dogg, Damian Marley, Wiz Khalifa: The Herb Code (11:29) marijuana mystic, altered at the alter

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Oscar Ordoñez: Death Cab for Cutie • Codes and Keys (3:24) earnest and quotable

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So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?
~Tessa Dare

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The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
~Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994)

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
~Helen Fisher

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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive.
~Bruce Jay Friedman

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
~Denis de Rougemont

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what’s right?
~Riley Keough

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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.
~Viktor Orban

A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society’s moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing “same-sex marriage”] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.
~Michelangelo Signorile

Love is the one thing that everybody goes through, but nobody really has cracked the code, right?
~Laufey

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I’m not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You’re my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you.
~Kev, to win Lisa Kleypas

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.
~Hadewijch

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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won’t date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
~Patti Stanger

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.
~Britt Robertson

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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
~Ben Gibbard (his Codes and Keys song title)

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I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
~Cathy Guisewite

My secret weapon is my wife. She’s the best judge. She’s a scientist and a natural reader. We’ve developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it’s what saves me from wild digressions.
~Erik Larson

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We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, ‘no’ means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.
~Christine Pelosi

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don’t turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline ‒ the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.
~Phil Robertson

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Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents’ Code.
~Michael Dirda

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it’s all in code in a language I totally don’t understand.
~Bill Engvall

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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
~Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830)

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What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn’t bad for very long. If you’re born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It’s a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.
~Suzi Quatro

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong ‒ I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.
~Gloria Estefan

I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you’ll be fine.
~Cory Hardrict (actor)

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The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does.
~Ellen Ullman

People ask me all the time: ‘What is it like to be a woman at Google?’ I’m not a woman at Google, I’m a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I’m a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.
~Marissa Mayer

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I live by a man’s code, designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
~Carole Lombard

From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.
~Stephanie Ruhle

Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
~Emmeline Pankhurst

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
~Ti-Grace Atkinson

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
~Donna J Haraway

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‘Miele’ is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
~Valeria Golino (‘Honey’)

We’re more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
~Kate Millett

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I think that if we want to cure cancer, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to do something about climate change, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to solve homelessness in our city and our country, teach girls to code. They’re change makers.
~Reshma Saujani

Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders.
~Kimberly Bryant

I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
~Kimberly Bryant

As Black women, we go through so much from code switching and putting on a mask just to get in the door. It’s not easy and takes sacrifice, but when you are your authentic self, you’re going to be successful as a whole.
~A’ja Wilson

The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical ‒ it’s so radical for a black woman to think she’s going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It’s still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.
~Kelela

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In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts.
~Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?
~Tawakkol Karman

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I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were ‘The Other.’ I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn’t been; it makes no difference.
~Stephen Merchant

I love talking about clothes with women; it’s like a code because women dress for women.
~Mindy Kaling

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I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 ‒ the area code, not the band ‒ Mile High, until I die. I’m 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don’t glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
~T J Miller

Why can’t Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that’s why. It’s gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.
~Dave Barry

It’s April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.
~Conan O’Brien

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
~P J O’Rourke

Here’s my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can’t, he doesn’t.
~Dave Barry

We are in a code orange. Homeland Security said earlier today that everyone should have a roll of duct tape and plastic sheeting to protect your house in event of terrorist attacks. Who came up with this idea? MacGyver?
~Jay Leno

We don’t know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It’s so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine ‒ it’s like learning German.
~Carly Chaikin

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There’s a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.
~Henry Rollins (singer, actor, comedian, etc)

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In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there’s actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that’s their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.
~Tom Glavine

The thing about boxers is that there’s respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that’s the code of honor.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

Fighters have a code, a law, and you have to respect everybody.
~Fabricio Werdum (MMA)

I believe in a code of honor, my personal Bushido. I’m not in a fight to make blood. I’m there for the technique.
~Rickson Gracie (MMA)

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Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
~Abhinav Bindra

Cyclists need to obey the Highway Code, not run red lights, and not ride with iPods on, and motorists need to be more respectful and look out for cyclists.
~Lizzie Armitstead

Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don’t dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.
~Patrick Mouratoglou

I want to learn how to stick around this league. I don’t think there’s a cheat code to it. But the sooner you find it out, the better you’ll be.
~D’Angelo Russell (NBA)

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There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That’s the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.
~Claire McCaskill

The problem with wanting the tax code to be ‘simpler, fairer,’ and ‘pro-growth’ is that it’s impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
~Timothy Noah

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All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.
~Richard Francis Burton

I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is “I’m never going to look bad in a movie, ever.” This is mostly the action film dudes, like, “Nah, hell no. He ain’t punchin’ me! I’d whoop his ass!” Then you’ve got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society ‒ what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn’t give a flying rat’s ass what it is as long as it’s deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.
~Michelle Rodriguez

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30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I’m from, and the mindset of ‘30058.’ It’s got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It’s soothing, I think.
~Shameik Moore

On my left arm, I have the zip code 15104. That’s Braddock, Pennsylvania, my home and the community I was honored to serve as mayor for 15 years.
~John Fetterman

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn’t determine your destiny.
~Lori Lightfoot

No child’s future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.
~Rachel Campos-Duffy

Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.
~Alex Padilla

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I always urge people to do something different, so for instance find something that you have secretly always wanted to try like dancing or boot camps or boxing, and Google search and put your zip code in and find a location‒ a class or trainer that teaches that in your area.
~Jackie Warner

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A Cat’s Eye
© David Lorenz Winston

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Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter’s deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
~Brendan I Koerner

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists’ personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
~Sheri Fink (2010 Pulitzer)

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
~Roger Mudd (CBS & NBC news)

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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
~Wadah Khanfar

There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can’t quote something that isn’t sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
~Peter Morgan (playwright)

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn’t matter that it’s done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
~Jimmy Wales

Recluse’ is a code word generated by journalists… meaning, ‘doesn’t like to talk to reporters.’
~Thomas Pynchon

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History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.
~Carl Sandburg

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the ’60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
~Tom Brokaw

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
~Rick Renzi

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
~Bob Ney

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The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
~Henry James Sumner Maine

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
~Henry James Sumner Maine

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.
~Horace Mann

If you really want to know about the future, don’t ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don’t ask somebody who’s writing code. No, if you want to know what society’s going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
~Clifford Stoll

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Poverty and crisis can mask a child’s potential, but they can’t determine it. And a zip code, definitely doesn’t determine what kid is capable of becoming.
~Aaron Gordon

The quality of a student’s education should not be determined by their zip code.
~Ronny Jackson

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Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.
~Megan Smith

You shouldn’t be learning how to code when you’re middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you’re a kid.
~Debbie Millman

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.
~Marvin Ammori

Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.
~Marc Benioff

I actually don’t believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it’s reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It’s not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.
~Linus Torvalds

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For many Americans the term ‘speech code’ sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.
~Kirsten Powers

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you’ll work through just won’t impart this knowledge. That’s fine.
~Robert Love

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As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one ‒ that’s how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that ‘text,’ tinker with traits ‒ play God, some would say.
~Gregory Benford

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
~Craig Venter

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.
~Arvind Gupta

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Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.
~Craig Venter

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
~Stephen Hawking

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code ‒ with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
~Elon Musk

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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
~Ada Yonath

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
~Richard Dawkins

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we’ll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.
~E O Wilson (biologist, naturalist, 1929-2021)

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@Writers Platform:

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
~Clifford Geertz

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn’t express, not really. It’s a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That’s what’s hard about it.
~Ellen Ullman (tech writer)

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I’m an infant with Shakespeare; I’m kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.
~Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
~Lauren Willig

Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.
~Ben Dolnick

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I think that I’ve always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn’t have a reciprocal experience.
~William Gibson

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
~Dawn Olivieri

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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
~Ken Liu

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we’d try to write shows, we’d jokingly call the word documents “Hit Show.” We just couldn’t crack the code.
~Jake M Johnson

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
~Barry Hannah

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Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.
~Erik Naggum

In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure “programmer productivity” in terms of “number of lines of code produced”. In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to “the number of lines of code spent”.
~Edsger Dijkstra

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
~Bill Gates

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
~Ken Thompson

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
~Richard E Pattis

Don’t document bad code ‒ rewrite it.
~Brian Kernighan

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.
~Bram Cohen

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Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, “How can I improve the code so that this comment isn’t needed?” Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
~Steve McConnell

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
~Linus Torvalds

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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
~Bjarne Stroustrup

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
~David Parnas

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
~Martin Fowler

Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
~Tom Van Vleck

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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
~Benjamin Cardozo

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
~Ron Jeffries

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Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
~Wietse Venema

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.
~Dave Thomas

It doesn’t cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that’s why they’ve done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It’s because somebody built this self-replicating process.
~George Dyson

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
~Douglas Crockford

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Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.
~Erik Naggum (referring to language: Lisp)

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another’s code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.
~Guido van Rossum

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.
~Erik Naggum

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
~Jamie Zawinski

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
~Larry Wall

Little else matters than to write good code.
~Karl Lehenbauer

Code writers, they are my idols.
~will.i.am

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I kind of ‘code-sketch,’ where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it’s any fun and change the parts that aren’t.
~Markus Persson

I have the ability to get code done, but I’m impatient, and it’s scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with ‘Minecraft,’ as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I’d like to actually become a good programmer.
~Markus Persson

Sometimes it’s not always about what you can see or hear but what’s under the hood of a game that’s most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.
~Rob Manuel

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I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.
~Vikram Chandra

Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with
~Brian Kernighan

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It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.
~Joshua Bloch

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
~Bill Gates

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
~Paul Buchheit (Gmail)

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Writing code? That’s the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use ‒ now that’s the hard stuff.
~Jeff Atwood

Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth ‒ you’ll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.
~Jay Samit

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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
~Richard Stallman (free software advocate)

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
~Miguel de Icaza (activist)

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for our goal.
~Richard Stallman

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
~Peter Fenton

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.
~Douglas Rushkoff

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Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
~Mitchell Baker

You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
~Ken Thompson

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The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you’re headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.
~Vivek Wadhwa

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
~Michael Crichton

Writing code means always having to say you’re sorry.
~Paul Ford

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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
~Marissa Mayer

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
~Bill Gates

I went to a Cal Tech party after the ‘Facebook‘ movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.
~Kerry Bishe

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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
~Donald Knuth

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
~Linus Torvalds

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
~Edsger Dijkstra

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
~Brian Kernighan

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The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.
~John Carmack

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.
~Wietse Venema

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The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It’s a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end ‒ as soon as it tilts even a little…
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore’s Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi’s Code.
~Marvin Ammori

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It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.
~Andrew Ng

You shouldn’t restrict peoples’ freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.
~Matt Mullenweg

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Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
~Ryan Holmes

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
~Bill Joy

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Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up. By writing code, I learned how to bring my dreams to life, how to budget, and how to build stuff. Whatever path you choose in life ‒ being an artist, an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a politician, you will give yourself a huge leg up if you learn how to code.
~Robert Glaser (teacher of teachers)

Even if you’re going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking and being able to process information and break it down is important no matter what you’re doing. Having that knowledge of code is something that you can apply to your daily life.
~iJustine

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it’s the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn… When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.
~Mitchel Resnick

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Coding, it’s an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you’re trying to build comes to life.
~Reshma Saujani

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Prewritten Prompt: code

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Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
~William A Dembski

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
~Thomas Nagel

All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!
~Greg Erwin

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‘Isn’t atheism just another religion?’ No, it isn’t. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed ‘holy’ leaders. Atheists don’t believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
~Dan Barker

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right, because they live by a moral code.
~Ricky Gervais

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don’t know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
~Mel Gibson

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Here is God’s purpose ‒ For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction “love” commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy.
~R Buckminster Fuller

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.
~Brennan Manning

Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
~Neal Stephenson

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The Puritans thought they could simply repress man’s sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality ‒ which became America’s ‒ was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.
~Hugh Hefner

And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one’s own concept of existence and meaning and truth. …if we want a society that reveres life, that defends the family, and that discourages delinquency and promotes decency, we cannot force a privatization of religion; we must allow the truth-claims of religious faith to be uttered aloud in the public square.
~Rick Santorum

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I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
~Glenn Beck (Sermon On The Mount/Golden Rule notwithstanding)

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
~Salman Rushdie

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The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.
~Rachel Pollack

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. … There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. … The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music: when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.
~Richard Dawkins

But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn’t a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn’t a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn’t a wagon, it’s only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries, Is not the goal, but the exercise!
~Edmund Vance Cooke (1 comma added for clarity ~Ed Note)

One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
~Sam Brownback

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
~Randall Terry

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
~Julius Wellhausen

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code… also showed people’s interest in religion.
~Barbara Walters

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I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.
~Scott Derrickson

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action ‒ you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
~E Stanley Jones

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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal ‒ there’s no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
~Orson Scott Card

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
~Damian Lewis

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An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
~Steven Pinker

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Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
~Michael Specter

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level ‒ an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
~James Gleick

You can’t have life without the genetic code.
~Craig Venter

Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important ‒ after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc., etc. But the regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it’s the environment that regulates genes.
~Robert Sapolsky

Epigenetics doesn’t change the genetic code, it changes how that’s read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won’t be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
~Bruce Lipton

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Information is crucial to our biological substance ‒ our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.
~James Gleick

The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are passing around ‒ and it’s not the same. The code is not the same for every person.
~Sebastian Seung

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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn’t believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
~Ada Yonath (Nobel, chemistry)

We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It’s not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.
~Craig Venter

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
~Francis Crick

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
~Mario Bunge

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There’s just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.
~Robin Sloan

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If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It’s illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
~Clive Thompson

It’s simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
~Whitfield Diffie

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If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies’ security teams’ files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It’s just more efficient.
~Kevin Mitnick

My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.
~Kevin Mitnick

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.
~Kevin Mitnick

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
~Ken Thompson

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Microsoft’s Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple’s Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn’t have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
~Walt Mossberg

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel ‒ one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
~Steve Jobs

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don’t bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple’s rules. If you’re even allowed to.
~Douglas Rushkoff

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We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.
~Mike Davidson

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code [emojis] separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
~John McWhorter

Grassroots techies ‒ the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don’t make the headlines ‒ hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
~Virginia Postrel

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
~will.i.am

We’ve learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.
~Kevin Young

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Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits ‒ bits.
~George Dyson

Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like biological organisms, the most adaptive blockchains will be the ones that survive and thrive.
~Fred Ehrsam

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The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you ‒ and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.
~Jonathan Zittrain

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it.
~James Gosling

So law is based on our minds, our wetware ‒ it’s based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
~Nick Szabo

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Computers had their origin in military cryptography‒in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
~Austin Grossman

The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
~Marc Laidlaw

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Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can’t change it since they don’t have the source code. They can’t study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.
~Richard Stallman

The problem is, we’re moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.
~Jonathan Zittrain

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Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems ‒ and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
~Craig Federighi

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
~Ken Thompson

I use Mac. Not because it’s more secure than everything else ‒ because it is actually less secure than Windows ‒ but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.
~Kevin Mitnick

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don’t bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple’s rules. If you’re even allowed to.
~Douglas Rushkoff

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§ The Exercise:

5s ‘n 7s

pen name: a.k.a
later: m.i.a
coded: d.o.a
best shows end the day
no good way to say
we raged, prayed, cried when
beauty passed away

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be times when magic
secrets are unearthed
when one plays with words,
perks and potentials
as one builds with words
when one works with words
codes and quests with words

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code of conduct, or conscience
rules of school, self compliance
guess with clues, solve with science
present tense: can do, but won’t
predictable defiance

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barred at the Bar Code
bared herself in protest mode
beheld, cheers unfold
cast as Hot Ice, melts for gold
from need to greed, bought and sold

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whether the weather
behaves the spoiled or blest child
best ride surfs the clouds
born wild untamed uncoded
predictable as the wind

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testing the waters
decoding nature’s design
prepping for finals
fathom whence the west wind blows
when the end, but the end knows

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code of the brigand
get away with all you can
be proud of your brand
robin hood made robbing good
count your success, canned or banned

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
~Mitch Hedberg

I studied Morse code.
~Adam Driver

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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn’t life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
~George Dyson

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
~Richard Powers

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My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.
~Rickson Gracie

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
~Edward Zwick

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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
~Gary Oldman

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.
~Paul Ryan (House Speaker, 2015-2019)

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I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn’t any good anyway.
~Robert Stone (writer)

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
~Mike Ferguson

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You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
~Matthew Desmond

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.
~Richard Brancatisano

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Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings.
~Neale Donald Walsch

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
~Henry James Sumner Maine

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In jail, you just zone out, so that’s the thing. That’s like a cheat code.
~King Von

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we’ve violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom.
~Daniel Smith

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Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: ‘Work hard, play harder.’
~Kenny Chesney

When you’re in a band, a marriage ‒ whatever, it’s kind of the same deal ‒ there’s a lot of things that you see, and people trust you with information about their lives. Call it a ‘bro code’ or whatever you wanna call it, but there are certain things you do not tell. At least, I don’t.
~Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses)

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You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
~Robert Breault

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
~Harry S Truman

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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
~Seamus Heaney

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~Malcolm Bradbury

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Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
~Winston Churchill

We’re coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
~Frank Abagnale

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I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
~John Cena

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.
~Nelson Mandela

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Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.
~John A Stormer

Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, no ‘higher’ virtues can be entertained. You need to be alive to philosophize. You can add to these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them from the equation altogether you aren’t just leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization possible.
~Jack Donovan

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Anger can be a useful emotion; it’s built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
~Michael Hayden

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
~Ben Bernanke

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
~Roland Barthes

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
~Jewel

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The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.
~Christopher Penczak

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~Albert Claude

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I’m not an aspiring rapper, I’m not a gang member, I’m not a dope dealer, I don’t have multiple babies momma’s. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn’t need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It’s in my DNA.
~Christopher Dorner (policeman, killer of 4 law officers)

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,–if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,–if it does not add to the world’s stock of valuable souls,–if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men–I will have none of it.
~Anna Julia Cooper

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As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
~Benjamin F Wade (abolitionist)

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
~Ron Wyden (US Sen)

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The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they’re thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That’s when the truth of who they are is revealed.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.
~Dave Galanter

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There’s no doubt West Point impacted who I am… It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it’s the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.
~Mike Pompeo

There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won’t do to get ahead, the lines you will and won’t cross to win, whom you will and won’t step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.
~Patti LaBelle

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When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it.
~Ellen Ullman

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.
~Daniel H Wilson

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
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