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• I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

  Donald Knuth

  People, Patents, Use

  "The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching". Book by Donald E. Knuth, 1973.

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• The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.

  Terence McKenna

  Cutting, Intelligent, Feet

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• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Fall, Learning, Pockets

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

  James L. Buckley

  Afterlife, Presidential, Campaigns

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• Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!

  Greg Plitt

  Past, Opportunity, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from May 10, 2012

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• In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Real, Integrity

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• Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

  Marvin Minsky

  Psychology, Roles, Next

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• Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Taught Us, Views

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• The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim.

  David Bentley Hart

  Fashion, Atheism, Littles

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• By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.

  John Rutledge

  Men, Heaven, Doing Good

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• I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

  Debbie Harry

  Religious, Rights, Community

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• The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

  Roone Arledge

  Thinking, Anchors, Differences

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• Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Memories, Difficult

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• What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

  Eric Schlosser

  Ignorance, Years, Survival

  "Fast Food Nation". Book by Eric Schlosser, January 17, 2001.

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• The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Jobs, Forever

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• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Adventure, Years, Oil

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• I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Accomplishment, Satisfaction, Hungry

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• It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider such periods as an omen before you move. When you are stuck on something, it is important to hold to your purpose but not press onward against the current. When you can't move at all, try to concentrate, continuing forward as if in a boat switching to a stronger motor. The keiko that is most important when you cannot move is kage no keiko [shadow training].

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Moving, Effort, Training

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• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Profound, Listening, Suffering

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• I drank water from your spring
  and felt the current take me.

  Rumi

  Spring, Water, Take Me

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

  Brian Tracy

  Skills, Ideas, Arrows

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.7, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Work, Needs, Vote

  "Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney’s ‘Latino Problem", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

  Peter Senge

  Reality, People, Vision

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.159, Random House

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• Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical.

  Meredith Willson

  Music, Men, Feel Good

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• If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

  Jay Inslee

  Hockey, Ice, Greenland

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