Wordgrove Post & Review

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

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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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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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~Code to: Why Punctuation Matters (0:42) priceless

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~Great Big Story: Cracking the Uncrackable Code (6:21) KRYPTOS @CIA

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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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§ MUSIC:

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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Dilbert
gocomix.com

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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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Quoted In The Grove:
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
~F H Bradley

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear is incomplete knowledge.
~Agatha Christie

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
~Henry James

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When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
~Larry David

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.
~Dalai Lama

Complete honesty has nothing to do with ‘purity’ or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
~Clement Greenberg

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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
~Jane Hirshfield

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.
~Joseph Conrad

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth‒ anonymously and posthumously.
~Thomas Sowell

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Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: “Finish me! Live me! Complete me!” There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, “What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete ‒ fulfill me!”
~Shree Rajneesh

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
~Sai Baba

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~Khalil Gibran

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There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
~John McDonald

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
~Dolly Parton

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other.
~Barry Unsworth

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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
~Jack Kornfield

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
~Shannon L Alder

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
~Oprah Winfrey

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Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.
~Margery Wilson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~Josh Billings

For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed…we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings.
~angel Kyodo williams

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
~Jane Austen

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
~Anais Nin

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
~Paul Kalanithi

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When “why” are we here? is not clear to us, it will often end up in “incompleteness.”
~Prashant B Yeole

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
~Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
~Stephen Hawking

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To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
~Epictetus

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
~Walter Darby Bannard

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
~Samuel Butler

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
~Michelangelo (creator)

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
~Edgar Allan Poe

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
~Lev Grossman

One of the greatest sounds of them all ‒ and to me it is a sound ‒ is utter, complete silence.
~Andre Kostelanetz (conductor)

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It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
~Susan Polis Schutz

‘The melancholy of all things done’ is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.
~Jeanne Marie Laskas

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.
~Jocko Willink (ex-SEAL, writer)

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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it’s hard to tell them apart.
~Carol Plum-Ucci

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
~Merrill Markoe

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.
~Richard Shweder

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The fact that we are I don’t know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
~Georges Simenon

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~Aristotle

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, ‘Let’s all jump into despair.’ But it doesn’t help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
~Yehuda Berg

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
~Raoul Vaneigem

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
~Viktor E Frankl

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live ‒ live a complete life ‒ live all our life.
~Emile Zola

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Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , “libertarian” meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and “socialist” meaning the demand for social equality. …Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.
~Donald Rooum

Arguably, the application of complete libertarianism leads one towards anarchy.
~Michael O’Rielly

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
~Will Durant

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An ideal and flawless freedom, “complete freedom”, enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
~Zygmunt Bauman

If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.
~Everlast

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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
~George Bernard Shaw

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
~John Desmond Bernal

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The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.
~Li Keqiang (Chinese politician/economist, ex-Premier)

I’m not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.
~Lori Lightfoot

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I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
~George H W Bush

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
~Margaret Chase Smith

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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
~James Monroe

May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
~Marquis de Lafayette

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At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
~Klaus Fuchs

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
~Clara Barton

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
~John Stuart Mill

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While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.
~Errico Malatesta

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When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom complete with personalities, what effect does this have on abortion legislation?
~Emily Martin

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The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists [governance by elite] and the Republicans [agrarian/states rights], and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
~Herbert Croly

In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the extremists’ control of the government was complete, their political machinations, propaganda, and demonization of their opposition fueled a dramatic backlash.
~Heather Cox Richardson

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Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude.
~Professor Pitkannan

This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
~Thurgood Marshall (SCJ)

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I know there’s a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don’t know where it’s coming from and how to correctly stop it.
~Michael McCaul

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
~Erwin Rommel

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
~Ernest Hemingway

The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
~Robert Kennedy

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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
~Mark Skousen

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
~Franklin Pierce

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We’re all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks ‒ that’s the herd; that’s all the cattle ‒ a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we’re trying to complete. So we’re trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.
~David Petraeus (Army Gen, ex-CIA)

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
~William J Casey (ex-CIA)

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
~Jon Stewart.

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I’m actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
~Edward Witten

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
~Jean-Paul Marat

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
~Friedrich August von Hayek (Austrian, 1899-1992)

Delusion completely overcomes man’s sense of right and wrong.
~Srimad Bhagavatam

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
~Alfredo Stroessner (dictator 35 years)

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
~Rene Descartes

I’m armed with more than complete steel, ‒ The justice of my quarrel.
~Christopher Marlowe

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Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.
~Michael T Flynn

Washington is a complete mess. It’s become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don’t matter.
~Meghan McCain

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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people’s power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
~Samora Machel

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.
~Tony Greig

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
~Martha Smith

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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
~Mahmoud Abbas

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us ‒ becoming stronger and stronger ‒ and we will complete the message.
~David Ben-Gurion

I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.
~Yoav Gallant

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There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn’t mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one’s own, then that freedom is less than worthless ‒ it’s oppression.
~Amir Butler

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~George Crook (defeated Geronimo)

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The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?
~Nicolle Wallace

One needs a Seer’s Vision and an Angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~Sarojini Naidu (1st woman president of Indian National Congress)

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it’s do or die.
~Curtis Sliwa (Guardian Angels, NYC/etc, unarmed)

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In honor of the great man’s wish to be in everyone’s thought, conversation, and headline, on their lips, minds, and public buildings, all the time: he is granted shared space on this page for the attention he craves and deserves. The following section of quotes is offered up in consideration of his good name.
~Ed Note

The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
~Evan McMullin

Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
~George T Conway III

You’re very kind to say so, but to be clear. You did just say, as our leader and a human being, he is complete, a soul… or did you just call him a complete asshole?
~Virginia (Virgin for short but not for long) Dares

McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their weaknesses, ambitions, and desires. In an impeachment trial where his members knew Trump’s guilt was absolute and unequivocal, he bribed and browbeat them into submission.
~Rick Wilson

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
~Julius Caesar

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A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed ‒ an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.
~Katharine Viner

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
~Rabindranath Tagore

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
~Vaclav Havel

I do think that the success, although still not complete… in the recognition of equal rights… to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we’ve had to report.
~Walter Cronkite

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Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
~Malcolm X

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
~Bobby Seale

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don’t think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven’t reached that stage yet.
~Rosa Parks

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
~Byron White (SCJ)

There are African-American families around this country ‒ a large, large number of African-American families ‒ that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
~Ta-Nehisi Coates

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
~Ida B Wells

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact, changed the country and the world for the better in noticeable ways. His vision has made the world a more equal place, and if not equal, it has helped to ensure that minorities have a voice.
~Skai Jackson

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~Steph Edwards: Complete-Gokai (1:06) Five Reiki Principles for Happiness…

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~The Unexpected Gypsy: A Complete Guide to Creative Journaling (32:13)

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~Sean Ruecroft: Complete (1:41) almost… the retirement years

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Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project ‒ even if precisely executed ‒ will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.
~Bruce Pittman

A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.
~Scott Allen

Projects progress quickly until they become 90% complete, then remain 90% complete forever.
~Edward Butler

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Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It’s really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
~Christopher Voss

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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
~Werner Herzog

One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.
~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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It doesn’t take a lot of research to realize that the human eye is drawn to attractive things. So the better looking your LinkedIn profile is ‒ meaning ‒professional and complete ‒ the more qualified you’ll appear to your audience and the more interested people will be to check out your site.
~Lewis Howes

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
~Mike Wilson

If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company’s bizarre governance war will be over for the time being, putting Uber back on par with other normal companies whose boards of directors dont fight publicly with each other.
~Adam Lashinsky

I was the assistant to the editor-in-chief of ‘Esquire Magazine.’ And my experience as an assistant was really best case scenario. My boss was absolutely the greatest boss I could have asked for. But I think there’s something universal about being an assistant, regardless of whether or not your boss is the greatest or a complete terror.
~Camille Perri

When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device ‒ complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot ‒ some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.
~Noreena Hertz

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The Small Business ‘common app’ would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs ‒ not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.
~Kay Hagan

When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can’t tell people, ‘Ask me this question and structure it in this way.’ And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they’ll be okay with it. Third time, they’re going to say, ‘This is a complete waste of time. I’m going away.’
~Dara Khosrowshahi

Our DNA is as a consumer company for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.
~Steve Jobs

Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night’s episode.
~Ted Sarandos (Netflix)

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
~John Burroughs

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Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players ‒ players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field ‒ so each manager who’s been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we’ve become more complete because of it.
~Sergio Busquets

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I would really love to win one of the men’s championships and throw a complete curve ball, like, out of nowhere.
~Mickie James (woman/WWE/country singer)

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No golfer’s journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
~Alex Shoumatoff

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.
~Lee Trevino (PGA)

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You’ve got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you’re able to complete it and do it the right way.
~Al Kaline (right field)

I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.
~Jake Arrieta

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
~Harmon Killebrew (power hitter)

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The culture of football is curious‒ steeped in tribalism, a sense of ownership, huge amounts of emotion and often a complete lack of objectivity.
~Simon Jordan

I’ve always tried to be a complete athlete and not limit myself to one position or one sport. It really helped mold my whole football game.
~Christian McCaffrey

I take complete pride in being the most versatile player in the NFL.
~Micah Parsons

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Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.
~KT Tunstall

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.
~Robert Redford

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Running a marathon is appealing to runners for many reasons. It’s epic! A real test for your mind and body and a challenge that truly fills you with complete elation when you cross the finish line. But it is in no way a trivial undertaking.
~A J Odudu

I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.
~Hidilyn Diaz

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I don’t think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can’t. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.
~Michael Chiesa

There’s a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.
~Michael Johnson

If they’re not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that’ll be an easy payday. But I’d rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.
~Jorge Masvidal

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One of the best things to me about ‘Skate‘ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
~Rob Dyrdek

The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the ’80s.
~Doug Jones

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If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.
~Fernando Alonso

It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
~Max Verstappen

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I want to be the best I can be and be a complete player.
~Terry Rozier

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
~Kobe Bryant

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
~(Magic) Earvin Johnson, Jr

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I’m new to the club but I’ve had a television since I was little and ever since I can remember I’ve been watching Madrid complete comebacks when it seems there is no chance.
~Jude Bellingham

Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player I have seen.
~Joachim Low

Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he’s the complete player ‒ the best ever, probably.
~Dimitar Berbatov

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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

I’ve got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
~Sandy Koufax

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§ VIDEO:

When I’ve gone back to work, it’s always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it’s the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can’t avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It’s very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.
~Brie Larson

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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That’s complete rubbish.
~Cate Blanchett

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we’re so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they’re doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.
~Ann Leckie

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I’ve played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that’s quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn’t he? He’s a nice old man.
~Michael Gambon

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
~Keanu Reeves

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I’ve tried it 85 times, and I’ve succeeded two or three times.
~Michael Caine

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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
~Alfred Jarry

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.
~Quentin Tarantino

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
~Michael Mann

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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
~Buffalo Bill

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
~Niall Ferguson

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
~Alfred de Vigny

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist’s portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
~Amanda Foreman

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When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from ‘Peter Pan.’ I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script ‒ and I ended up winning an award for it.
~Levi Miller

I made my first complete song when I was 9.
~Ludacris

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late ‒ my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.
~Lillete Dubey (actress/theatre director)

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn’t have the hot girlfriend. I wasn’t ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
~Josh Brolin

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.
~Farhan Akhtar

I didn’t pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn’t harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.
~Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror)

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
~James Thurber

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
~W Somerset Maugham

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
~Marilyn Monroe

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
~Mario Vargas Llosa

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A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is no doubt that, as works of art, books that lack canine interest are incomplete.
~Roy Hattersley

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century ‒ it was actually mummified, skin and all ‒ but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
~Adam Savage

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man’s understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.
~Dian Fossey

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I’ve had people say to me, ‘You’ll never sell handbags. You don’t work with leather, and leather is luxury.’ To me, it’s the complete opposite: leather is everywhere ‒ it’s so cheap a material; it’s so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn’t have a luxury element to it.
~Stella McCartney

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
~John Hoeven

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
~Dan Lipinski

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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
~Baruch Spinoza

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
~Aristotle

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
~Franz Liszt

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~Omeleto: Likewise, Olive (16:52) completing the circle

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~MagnetFilm: The Fox and the Bird (12:06) another circle completes, animated

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~DUST: Laboratory Conditons (17:01) star studded… worth it?

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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
~Alfred North Whitehead

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
~Jean Tinguely

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
~Jonas Mekas (“godfather of American avant-garde cinema”)

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
~Salvador Dali

Art isn’t complete until it’s shared.
~Seph Lawless

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I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.
~Sviatoslav Richter (Russ classical pianist)

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
~Oscar Wilde

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
~Elizabeth Moon

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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
~Joe Shuster (Superman)

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don’t care when I work or how I work.
~Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~Yves Tanguy

I remember so well my father’s complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.
~Claude Picasso

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.
~Lucian Freud

Some people can sit and enjoy the view… some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It’s where ideas come from.
~Graeme Base (Brit-Aussie author/artist)

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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
~Isabel Paterson

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
~Alexis Herman

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I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it’s The Dark Ages?
~Sheryl Lee Ralph

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
~Assata Shakur

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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
~Bo Jackson (NFL)

I never intended on fighting past a UFC contract. When I was on that four-fight losing streak, and I was considering stepping away, I wasn’t thinking of going anywhere else. I was thinking about studying philosophy at university, a complete directional change.
~Dan Hardy

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves ‒ you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
~Ray Bradbury

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
~Paul Thomas Anderson

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.
~Marie Curie

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
~Norman Cousins

I need to complete my homework on time.
~Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani, youngest Nobel)

Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
~Angela Duckworth

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My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.
~Oscar Arias (Costa Rica)

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.
~Prince Harry

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Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can’t if the Japanese won’t let us in.
~Mike Rogers

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.
~James Meredith

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
~Sam Houston

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal ‒ and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say ‘Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!’
~Joe Manchin

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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
~Yukio Mishima

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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
~Sun Ra

Ninety per cent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves ‒ so how can we know anyone else?
~Sydney J Harris

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ‘ I don’t dare show you what I am because I don’t trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don’t love me anyway, you’re a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.’ Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
~Duke Ellington

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.
~Louis William Countryman

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Having an inaccurate or incomplete view of ourselves is why we are always depressed
~Sunday Adelaja

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
~Alan Watts

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§ MUSIC:

I don’t like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I’m just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom ‒ creativity has to be complete freedom.
~Eli Russell Linnetz

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.
~Zachary Cole Smith

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
~Les Baxter

I have complete freedom, and there’s no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
~Richard Marx

It’s impossible for me to feel like there’s only one way to do a thing. There’s nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it’s a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there’s a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear ’em in a different register. And if you don’t have complete freedom, or you won’t let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that’s too horrible to even think about.
~Wes Montgomery

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
~Duke Ellington

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I’d like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
~Donny Hathaway

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
~Maynard James Keenan (of bands: Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer)

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I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
~Pooja Hegde

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
~Yves Saint Laurent

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I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.
~Wendy Williams

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.
~Marshall McLuhan

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
~Yves Saint Laurent

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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
~Emma Watson

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, ‘Morpheus!’ and I will complete the sentence by saying, ‘is not my name!’
~Laurence Fishburne

Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on.
~Bo Burnham

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I’ve got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it’s not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There’s much more.
~Richard Gere

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Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
~C S Lewis

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
~Tyler Perry

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
~Anatoly Karpov

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~Jacques Prevert

I’ve got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.
~Jane Goodall

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~Angel Feliciano: Swim Complete (3:31) wanting love, in need of saving

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~Keyshia Cole: You Complete Me (3:50) because love is forever

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~Emma Teta: Bruce Melodie • Complete Me (4:34) young love, a supple dancer

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~Complete: Jordan (2:55) the great debate, wrapped in rap

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~Backstreet Boys: Incomplete (3:54) moody, from being needy, in want of love

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~Jay Wud: Incomplete Heart (3:18) white backdrop, rock ‘n roll

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The story was left incomplete because I didn’t stop writing and you didn’t stop erasing.
~Chandni Arora

Two incomplete people can’t complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you.
~Tony Gaskins

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.
~Cher

It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.
~Kristin Davis

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Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.
~Martha C Nussbaum

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
~Eugene Kennedy

“I hate to tell you, dragon, but that’s an integral part of the whole business,” he whispered. “If you’re afraid to touch me then we’re not going to get very far.” She lifted her head to look at him. “I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me,” she said with complete honesty. He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. “This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part.
~Anne Stuart (romance novelist)

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone ‒ but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Quentin Crisp

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.
~Iyanla Vanzant

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Prenups are so unromantic ‒ a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness ‒ you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
~Suze Orman

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
~Lope de Vega

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
~Sharon Tate

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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn’t feel like a freak.
~Val McDermid

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
~Zachary Quinto

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You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
~Keith Sweat

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
~David Gest (to: Ms Minelli)

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
~David Kross

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Love could be more than just feeling those butterflies in your stomach when you are around them, but also a feeling of incompleteness when you are not around them.
~David Daniels

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
~Edmond de Goncourt

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The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
~Valerie Solanas

A single man is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
~Benjamin Franklin

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
~Joe Manganiello

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A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man ‒ a real man ‒ these days?
~Lauren Bacall

If I had to define ‘sexy’ now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it’s about complete and utter confidence.
~Solange Knowles

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A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person, we’re safe in our own paradise.
~Richard Bach

“Openness” [story] ultimately asks this same question can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say “Yes, of course!” But, over time, I’ve come to agree with Dan Savage.
~Alexander Weinstein

By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security ‒ kids you do or don’t want, Tiffany silver you never use ‒ that makes life complete.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

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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

If the bond between a husband and his wife is strong, then I think they complete each other, and the relationship also survives longer.
~Kratika Sengar

I don’t have an issue with marrying an actor, though it’s definitely tough. I work with actors and interact with star wives, and I don’t know how they do it. Loyalty is a very important factor for me, and I need to be in a relationship where the person will complete me and fill me up.
~Deepika Padukone

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
~Sheri L Dew

I’m a complete romantic ‒ it’s why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
~Pamela Anderson

I think it’s unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
~Samuel Adams

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When my wife and I met, I couldn’t talk to her ‒ and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said ‘Hi’ – and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, ‘I think I just met my wife.’
~Mike Vogel

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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
~Norman Maclean

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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
~Sammy Davis, Jr

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

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Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn’t present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
~Miranda Richardson

There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.
~Ayobami Adebayo

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During the late ’20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
~Vidal Sassoon

I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
~Tyler Perry

Everybody gets sad, even dads that have people to care for, and therefore, you don’t have to hide your pain. Life without rainy days is incomplete.
~Thomas Sanders (Incomplete ‒ The Puzzle Song)

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A revocable living trust allows your heirs to avoid probate entirely and keeps you in complete control of your finances while you’re alive. You can always make changes to what’s in the trust and to how you’d ultimately like it managed or disbursed.
~Suze Orman

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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
~Malaika Arora Khan

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.
~Beth Phoenix (WWE)

I would love to have a complete family. I’d love to do it all at once. I’d love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I’m blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I’m not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.
~Michael Ealy

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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
~Brad Meltzer

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
~Charles Dickens

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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood.
~Phil Robertson

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.
~Michelle Yeoh

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
~Anita Brookner

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Women! I have no idea. I don’t know anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me.
~Bryan Ferry

Women. They are a complete mystery.
~Stephen Hawking (a scientist of some standing)

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I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one‒ but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
~Elizabeth Blackwell

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~Susan B Anthony

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
~Florence Kelley

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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
~Simone de Beauvoir

I’m a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it’s true. I am a feminist to a point. But I’m not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
~Goldie Hawn

I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.
~Jinkx Monsoon (drag queen)

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~Betty Ford

The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.
~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

From Clara Barton’s tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat
fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.
~Brian Kilmeade

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I think, for women in particular, it’s kind of like you’re expected to get married, have a child, and then you get to be a person. But you don’t need someone else ‒ be it a spouse or child ‒ to complete or validate your existence. Being human is enough and should be enough, and I hope that we all come to a point where we can accept that.
~Ayobami Adebayo

I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
~Marisa Tomei

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor

I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn’t help. Because it’s (1) easy and (2) not fair. There are plenty of things that people have complete control over that are worthy of ridicule.
~Paul F Tompkins (comedian/actor)

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
~Philip Johnson

There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.
~Ian Hart

People say New Yorkers can’t get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
~David Letterman

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.
~Jeff Foxworthy

SpongeBob is a complete innocent ‒ not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations ‒ that’s always where the humor comes from.
~Stephen Hillenburg

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.
~David Dobkin

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Complete freedom from stress is death
~Hans Selye

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~Blais Pascal

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
~Theodor W Adorno

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We sometimes feel that a life which was so brief was in vain, and that God has mocked us by giving us the little one and then by taking it away immediately. The child had no opportunity to perform a work, nor was there any time given to develop character. Let us remember, first of all, that the little one had an eternal spirit, and that it has gone into the presence of God where there will be an eternity to perform works and develop character. A brief life is not an incomplete life.
~J Vernon McGee

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
~D H Lawrence

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the non-self that there is no self left to die.
~Bernard Berenson

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Completed
© Alana Shaw

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Unmarried Quotes & Coupled Sets

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
~Tertullian

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~Virginia Woolf

I love to make a one-pot meal ‒ think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
~Daniel Boulud

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
~Chanda Kochhar

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge ‒ the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you do a good deed, don’t expect anything back ‒ the other person can still be a complete git.
~Katie Hopkins

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
~Donald McKay

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.
~Victor Hugo

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
~Yves Saint Laurent

I was a complete, total nerd… I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don’t know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
~Elizabeth Mitchell

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Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call ‘the epiphanies of infancy’ ‒ the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything ‒ yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
~Michael Leunig

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
~Jack London

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
~Deepak Chopra

Ecstasy can be painful when it’s intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it’s overwhelming sometimes.
~Frederick Lenz

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
~Groucho Marx

We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate‒right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
~Dalai Lama

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
~Wayne Dyer

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
~Jim Rohn

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale — a daydream. Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.
~Charlotte Bronte

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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
~Janet Jackson

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music.
~LZ Granderson

It’s funny how complete strangers can have familiar souls.
~J Iron Ward

Venting your anger on anyone ‒ especially complete strangers ‒ is not a winning tactic. Be especially sweet to bartenders and people serving you food.
~Elin Hilderbrand

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@Writers Platform:

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
~Jessamyn West

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down ‒ notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there’s a story, and I’ll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.
~Scott Turow

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
~Joyce Carol Oates

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
~Victor Hugo

If we took Chaucer’s writings at face value, we’d have to conclude he was a complete drip.
~John Hutton

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick‘ and ‘The Great Gatsby‘ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
~Michael Cunningham

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don’t trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
~W G Sebald

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~Albert Camus

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.
~Wayne Dyer

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
~Maimonides

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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~Swami Sivananda

They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it’s God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it’s totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being’s birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It’s like the big graduation.
~David Lynch

How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart ‒ the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.
~Deepak Chopra

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

If they [theories?] are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
~Herbert Spencer (Brit polymath)

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.
~Bertrand Russell

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The idea of determinism [life ordained by events] combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
~Ken MacLeod

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It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
~Taraji P Henson

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
~O J Simpson

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We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
~Yehuda Berg

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
~Aristotle

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Prewritten Prompt: complete

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I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.
~Hema Malini (Hindu prayer ritual)

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
~W H Auden

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
~John Paul Stevens (SCJ)

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I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence … my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.
~Narendra Modi

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
~Ruhollah Khomeini

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
~Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa’di

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
~Mahatma Gandhi

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it’s simply going hungry.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
~Oswald Chambers

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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
~Alfred Adler

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
~Lactantius

It is when thoughts of God reach no higher than to adjectives of praise that one wonders at the wheedling quality of favor-seekers, and if a real dialog is ever to be.
~I Ben Keen II

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else ‒ an animal’s incomplete compared to a person and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
~Georges Bataille

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
~Pope John Paul II

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
~Sun Tzu

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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
~Deborah Sampson

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
~Lucinda Franks

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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
~Lao Tzu

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
~Ramana Maharshi

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I think I’m like most people ‒ we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.
~Rihanna

There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~John Nelson Darby (rapture theory)

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
~William H Hunt

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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I wanted Jesus in ‘A.D.’ to be very, very, very human ‒ to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it’s almost complete, right? It’s all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
~Juan Pablo Di Pace

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. Our submission defines our authority.
~Bradley Cooper

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
~J C Ryle

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation ‒ which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased ‒ only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.
~Nhat Hanh

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God’s many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the ‘only’ part.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment ‒ what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough.
~Seung Sahn

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~Denis Diderot

I have a complete temple of Lord Shiva. I have Shivansh written on me and that is the name of my sister’s son. I am a Leo so I also have a lion. I also have a warrior type tattoo as that gives me the spirit to fight when I am on the field. The pain of getting inked gives me joy.
~Yuzvendra Chahal (cricketer)

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
~Walter Pater

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.
~Elizabeth McCracken (never closed since 16th century opening)

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church ‒ things like that ‒ I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
~Jimmy Carter

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
~Emil Cioran

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For every house is incomplete without Him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
~Christopher Smart

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
~Keegan-Michael Key

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Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s a natural fact of life.
~David Chalmers

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
~Wayne Dyer

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
~D H Lawrence

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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
~John Tyndall

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
~Avicenna

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But … the working scientist … is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in the particular situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer. … No one standing on the outside can predict what the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow.
~Percy Williams Bridgman

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician ‒ but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is ‒ so that I have an advantage there.
~Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet ‒ but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem ‒ and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas ‒ and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
~Alexander Graham Bell

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life’s work complete.
~Rudolf Diesel

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Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I’ve met.
~Michael Pitt

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I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
~Richard P Feynman

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
~David Hilbert

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
~Paul Nurse (geneticist, ex-CEO Francis Crick Institute)

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.
~Leroy Chiao

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
~George Gaylord Simpson

There is no complete theory of anything.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.
~Philip Treacy

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It’s beyond TMI ‒ oversharing is not just too much information; it’s incessant sharing of non-information ‒ breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.
~Faith Salie

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
~Andrew Brown

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~Douglas Adams

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.
~Graham McTavish (actor/author, Scot)

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I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don’t always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.
~Ray Tomlinson

One’s complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
~William H Gass

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Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
~Tim Ferriss

LinkedIn’s got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it’s like, ‘You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?’ People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.
~Jesse Schell

The thing that has been the coolest part about social media is that I get to connect with complete strangers from different parts of the universes… It’s just been nice to talk to real people. Even if it’s not in person.
~Gracie Abrams

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§ The Exercise:

life, fine art’s tattoo on time
first step to eternity
unbridled complexity
potent puzzle to complete
love, a diary entry
scripted universal need
secondary to succeed

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love’s endless boundless promise
fresh unbordered horizon
valid unbounded domain
gold’s untarnished perfection
sold: a complete abstraction

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hard luck run amuck
complete disregard
of assurances
who say it will end
of a certainty
one day or ‘nother
one way or t’other

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complete starter guide
do unto others:
as done unto you,
before done to you,
as you would to you,
silver iron gold
one rule echoes you

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complete the cycle
two twelve hour circles
one ends the work day
one to eat sleep play
life of black white grey
clock as oracle
foretold chronicle

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enter to exit
do the deed full on
doom’s broom ride to goal
finish the journey
to pop the balloon

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the doing of life
making the best, most of it
paying attention
knowing it for incomplete
nor wishing it otherwise

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submit in writing
in twenty five words or less
a complete answer
25 letters or less
not a no or yes, a guess

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complete retirement
having nothing to do but
what the moment wants

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trek the unmapped land
thus, complete the incomplete
some do call it love

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you’ve been doing.
~David Whyte

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Botanists have a plant-category which they call ‘Incompletae’; similarly one can say that there are incomplete and uncompleted people. These are the ones whose longings and strivings are out of proportion with what they actually do and what they achieve.
~Goethe

Never attempt to complete an incomplete person. You will be drained and exhausted. You can’t run for someone who refuses to even take a few steps. Stop trying to mend broken hearts. You will end up getting dragged into their void. You can only help a free person to fly. A free soul to soar.
~Urvashi Goja

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All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
~Marsha Sinetar Antara

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that’s in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
~Sam Abell

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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
~William Irwin Thompson

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
~Claude Levi-Strauss

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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
~Betty Friedan

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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
~Andre Maurois

The complete fool is half prophet.
~Yiddish proverb

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.
~Okakura Kakuzo, The Book Of Tea

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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
~Yami Gautam (Hindi actress)

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
~Eckhart Tolle

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The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
~Sylvia Boorstein

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is always the best policy.
~George Washington

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
~Josh Billings

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Sleep is the secret of life! I must have a comfortable bed, a room at exactly 60 degrees, and complete darkness like a tomb to sleep. If I don’t get 10 hours, then I’m miserable and I make everyone around me miserable.
~Demis Roussos

I’ve always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that’s when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.
~Tony Dorsett

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~W Somerset Maugham

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
~Louise Mensch

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When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.
~Ann Cotton

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.
~Aldo Leopold

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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
~Brian Tracy

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
~Robert Breault

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we’re going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
~Terence McKenna

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
~Mother Teresa

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
~Confucius

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~Andre Gide

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
~Saint Augustine

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Knowledge, love, power‒there is the complete life.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

There is always an incompleteness in a complete day.
~Pragati Bajaji

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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Mahatma Gandhi

I’m a complete human being. I’m very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I’m a sociologist, anthropologist.
~Erykah Badu

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Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.
~John Francis

You haven’t partied until you’ve partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
~Cameron Diaz

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.
~Frederick Buechner

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings ‒ all of us. We learn from each other. If you’re missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.
~Juan Felipe Herrera

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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
~A Edward Newton

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
~Willa Cather

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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 Video Salad
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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