A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create
destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in
turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man
would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
-- Feodor Dostoevsky, "Notes From the Underground"
destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in
turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man
would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
-- Feodor Dostoevsky, "Notes From the Underground"
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he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain... - If a man could have half his wishes,
he would double his troubles... - No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
E. W.... - Pascal, n.:
A programming language named after a man who would... - Pascal:
A programming language named after a man who would... - It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would
have in his own words and propositions,
for it makes the other party stick the less. -- Francis...
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- AARRGHH!!
A virus was chewing my FAT... - At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows. -- William... - But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable
nowdays,
the best pretext is to be at work on some profound... - Well I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five,
The headline screamed that I was still alive, I couldn't... - Life is an onion and one peels it
crying...
