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“Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,”
― The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
― The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
“He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.”
― Simulation and Its Discontents
― Simulation and Its Discontents
“In general, classificatory work practices involve politics, kinds of both prototypical and Aristotelian classifications, and deletion of the practices in the production of' the final formal record.”
― Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
― Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. —JOHN F. KENNEDY on Theodore Roosevelt New York City, December 5, 1961”
― The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
― The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
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