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“The apprentice avoids all use of Java classes. The journeyman embraces Java classes. The master knows which classes to embrace and which to avoid.”
― Michael Fogus, The Joy of Clojure

“The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”
― Reginald Horace Blyth

“The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.”
― Reginald Horace Blyth

“Так в каждом деле. Завтра, завтра, завтра,-
А дни ползут, и вот уж в книге жизни
Читаем мы последний слог и видим,
Что все вчера лишь озаряли путь
К могиле пыльной. Дотлевай, огарок!
Жизнь - это только тень, комедиант,
Поясничавший полчаса на сцене
И тут же позабытый; это повесть,
Которую пересказал дурак:
В ней много слов и страсти, нет лишь смысла.
("Макбет")”
― William Shakespeare

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

“Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.”
― Mack Reynolds, Section G: United Planets