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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science

“My sport is your sport’s punishment.”) Usually,”
― Hal Higdon, Marathon, All-New 4th Edition: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons

“لكل امرئ الحق في الرحيل، وعلى وطنه أن يقنعه بالبقاء، مهما ادعى رجال السياسة العظام عكس ذلك.
من السهل قول ذلك حين يكون المرء مليارديرًا، أما حين لا تستطيع في بلدك إيجاد وظيفة، و لا تلقى الرعاية الصحية، ولا إيجاد المسكن، ولا الاستفادة من التعليم، ولا الانتخاب بحرية، ولا التعبير عن الرأي بل ولا حتى السير في الشوارع على هواك! فعلى وطنك أن يفي إزاءك ببعض التعهدات، أن تعتبر فيه مواطنًا عن حق، وألا تخضع فيه لقمع أو لتمييز أو لأي شكل من أشكال الحرمان بغير وجه حق، ومن واجب وطنك وقياداته أن يضمنوا لك ذلك.
الوطن الذي بوسعك أن تعيش فيه مرفوع الرأس. تعطيه كل ما لديك. حتى حياتك. أما الوطن الذي تضطر فيه للعيش مطأطئ الرأس فلا تعطيه شيئًا. فالنبل يستدعي العظمة. واللامبالاة تستدعي اللامبالاة. والازدراء يستدعي الازدراء. ذلك هو ميثاق الأحرار. ولا أعترفُ بميثاق آخر.”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman, Rogers Commission Report (1986)”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett

“There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill towns with their narrow lanes and often narrow minds were all I really knew and I feared that if I left it behind, I would lose it and not find anything to replace it. The other reason I didn’t want to go was because I wanted to be the kind of person who stays, who builds a stable and predictable life. But I wasn’t one of the people, nor would I ever be.
I had a vision for my life. It wasn’t clear, but it was beautiful and involved leaving my history and my poverty behind me. I wasn’t happy about who I was or where I was, but I didn’t worry about it. It didn’t define me. We’re always in the making. God always has us on his anvil, melting, bending and shaping us for another purpose.
It was time to change, to find a new purpose.”
― John William Tuohy

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
― Jim Carrey

“الجهل مريح يا فاطمة
الجهل مريح
عدم العلم مليح
يا أم أولادي يا إنسانة زي الناس
عدم العلم مليح
عدم العلم عيون تنعس في الليل
ضحكة من القلب
من القلب صحيح
عدم المعرفة بيخلي الرجالة عيال
يضحكوا يبكوا
و دايما للدنيا طعم جديد”
― عبد الرحمن الأبنودي, جوابات حراجي القط

“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
― Ezra Pound

“To will is to stir up paradoxes”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“When you aim low, its easy to achieve your dreams.”
― Frank J. Edler

“I'm not a legend... it's just the shit I do is legendary.”
― William Andrei Cunningham