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Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

Michael Foot

Party, Criticism, Debate

Tribune, 1954.

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A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

Jaron Lanier

Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

Kristi Noem

People, Trying, Needs

"Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class" by Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Bruce Schneier

Reading, Kids, Government

Bruce Schneier (1996). “Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C”, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Linux, Performances, Hacks

Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.

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The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

Said Seyam

Political, Would Be, Occupation

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I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

Linus Torvalds

Thinking, Scary, Leopards

"Torvalds Pans Apple With 'Utter Crap' Putdown". www.theage.com.au. February 05, 2008.

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My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.

Dave Cutler

Running, Memories, Real

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I could send you a bone with a file in it, only you'd eat it.

Terry Crowley

Bones

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I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

Lefty Kreh

Rivers, Lakes, Views

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I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

Shaquille O'Neal

Basketball, Certain, Be Careful

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A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.

Max Richter

Dream, Memories, Data

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X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

James Frain

England, X Files, Bigs

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A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

Woodrow Wilson

Nations

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.59, tredition

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In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Erma Bombeck

Mosquitoes, Size, Flight

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We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

Gloria Steinem

Jobs, Children, Home

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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

Dorothy Parker

Country, Weekend, Bored

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The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.

Clifford Stoll

Smart, Organization, Needs

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I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

Philip James Bailey

Running, Doubt, Gauntlet

Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.34

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Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

Cathy Guisewite

Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Jane Brody

Homework, Source, Backgrounds

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Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Work, Envy, Advancement

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... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.

Marie Colvin

Real, War, Military

"A war reporter in Homs is worth any amount of outrage on Facebook" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

Jodi Picoult

Book, Thinking, Land

"Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

Elizabeth Edwards

Moving, Divorce, Thinking

Source: www.progressive.org

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