Escritas — Poems List

Anonymous

Alas my love you do

Alas my love you do me wrong,

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Ken Thompson

Just think -- IBM and

Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

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Josef Stalin

I believe in one thing

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

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Lao Zi

Stop thinking, and end your

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

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Ken Thompson

I know nothing.

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Edward Wallis Hoch

There is so much good

There is so much good in the worst of us,

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Adam Smith

All for ourselves and nothing

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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Josef Stalin

The people who cast the

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Nearly all marriages, even happy

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

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Ken Thompson

SCCS is the source-code motel

SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out.

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Anonymous

Never argue with a fool.

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.

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Stephen Hawking

For millions of years, mankind

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

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Ken Thompson

Maybe I should have screwed

Maybe I should have screwed up.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

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Oscar Wilde

A cigarette is the perfect

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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Paulo Coelho

Time does not always pass

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them

One Ring to rule them all,

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Ken Thompson

When in doubt, use brute

When in doubt, use brute force

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Paulo Coelho

I opened the window and

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

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St

Live simply, so that all

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

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Michel de Montaigne

No man is exempt from

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

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Ancient Egyptian Blessing

God be between you and

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage,

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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