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“At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.”

Humans Kind Universe Moral Human Nature Understood Core Versions Code Maps Moral Code

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.”

Path Failure Versions Block Expansion Feedback Emergence

Author:Mother Teresa

“We make versions, and true versions make worlds.”

World Creativity Versions

Author:Nelson Goodman

“The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.”

People Thinking Want Happens Individual Example Keys Conversation Available Conversion Versions Insane Code Files Default Signing Linux Kernel

Author:Linus Torvalds

“It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.”

Way America Class Becoming Performances Versions Southern Working Class Parting Redneck

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.”

Secret Computer Versions Consumers Engaged Deceit Hiding Technological Files Cloaks Daggers Sony

Author:Greg Abbott

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.”

Giving Given Views Written Fields Rate Versions Conqueror Prominence

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Political Theory Bills Versions Relief Farms Professors Farmers Agriculture Harvard

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.”

Feels Writing Book Versions Writing A Book

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.”

Mean Speak Language Teacher Car Enlightenment Hollywood Versions Enlightened Perpetual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.”

World Inspirational Humans Persons Reality Planets Six Billions Versions Perceive

Book:The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

“Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.”

Way Loses Pure Fairs Versions Motive Accurate Presentation Ulterior Motive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Audience Painting Personality Versions Painter Sincere Ironic Drag Earnest Presenting Holistic

Author:Joe Bradley

“The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.”

Book Stuff Ego Versions

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.”

People World Different Political Views Standing Point Of View Versions Affected Platforms Imaginative Presenting Persuading

Author:David Hare

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Motivational Happiness Success Peace Teacher Self Esteem Positive Inspirational Life Confidence Empowerment Rate Oneself Caring Actresses Singers Versions Esteem Being True Being Yourself Bullying About Yourself Women Empowerment Be You Originality Graduation Bully Carpe Diem Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Bullied Boost Self Confidence Being Myself Garlands Second Rate Famous Motivational Funny Graduation Just Being You Confidence Boosting High School Graduation Inspirations Being Yourself Boost Your Confidence Inspirational Graduation Being Bullied Funny Commencement Anti Bullying Inspiring Self Esteem Inspirational High School Graduation College Graduation Old Hollywood Inspirational Self Esteem True To Oneself School Graduation Convocation Bullying Inspirational Inspirational Self Confidence Always Be Yourself Inspirational Bullying Not Being Yourself Self Strength Cool Graduation Motivational Graduation Being Original Being Yourself And Happy High School Graduation Speech High School Commencement Graduation Wishes

Author:Judy Garland

“My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.”

Ifs Writing Ends Play Able Wanted Song Felt Goal Rooms Heard Understood Guitar Productions Studios Versions Bells

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.”

Thinking Way Stage Pure Who You Are Versions Persona

Author:Matthew Bellamy

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“I love the edited version of it.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.”

Trying Play Film Found Interesting Player Structure Versions Session

Author:Mike Figgis

“A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself”

I Can Self Prayer Lord Awareness Self Awareness Luck Versions Grants Serenity

Book:Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

“A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.”

Way Eye Consciousness Seeing Reader Draws Refuse Versions Usual New Ways Good Writers Groove

Author:Bill Barich

“Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.”

Giving May Simple Comfort Hot Boxes Pops Versions Warning Traffic Filling Lawsuit Pastries Tarts Placebo

Book:Traffic

Source: Traffic

“If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.”

Ifs Knows Facts Heaven Hell Versions Phoenix Gonzo

Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.”

People Hard Games Audience Statements Versions Platforms Console

Author:John Carmack

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mean Country Facts Stories Feelings Memories Fiction Happened Findings Distance Details Versions Being True Conquer Paradise Wilderness Transformed Sad Story

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.”

Thinking I Can Enough Dream Planets Bears Independent Lifetime Versions

Book:Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Source: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

“With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.”

Rocks Band Versions Documentaries

Author:Chris Shiflett

“Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be, I think it's great. All the stuff on YouTube is there as a back-up! I think that's the way it should be.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Social Stuff Generations Versions Youtube New Generation Social Network

Author:Kerry Ellis

“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.”

Firsts Children Littles Would Be School Parent Principles Records Birth Flow Versions Streams Rough Times Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:David Gelernter

“I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.”

Feels Matter Play Song Easy My Own Ability Five Minutes Ears Versions

Author:Jeremih

“I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.”

Years Wells My Own Mines Personality Concerned Individuality Versions Ravens

Author:Bill Reid

“It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.”

People World Believe Self Today My Own Attitude Myth Accidents Versions Suits Interpretation Self Centered Ravens

Author:Bill Reid

“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.”

“The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.”

“The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.”

Government Earth Order Powerful Versions Corporations Most Powerful Territory Entity Dependency Cultivating Hygiene

Author:Germaine Greer

“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Believe Wells America Law Nations Levels Fields And Love Baseball Library Versions Customs Ritual Privileged

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.”

Thinking Reality Accepting Prepared Available Versions

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.”

Knows Play Dog Versions

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.”

People Care Jobs Names My Own Company Ego Versions Obsessed Italian Very Happy Ego Trip

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.”

People Thinking Kind Males Versions Witch Wizards Witchcraft

Author:Yoko Ono

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.”

Acting Versions Charming

Author:Matt Ross

“When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.”

World Writing Years War Stories Body Bigs Kids Wanted My Favorite Scary Versions War Of The Worlds Nightmare Invasion Pals

Author:David Gerrold

“You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your bowel movement on Facebook. And I'm not even talking about legacy; I'm talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I'm making something, and I feel least alive when I'm being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn't aware of. To me, that's the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner's World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you're just a fat man.”

Men World Feels Facts Use Care Used Dies Walks Attention Talking Alive Doors Movement Shoes Versions Fats Posts Legacy Runners Iphone Obnoxious Jogging Fat Man Bowel Movements

Author:Merlin Mann

“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”

Looks Different Whole Facts Lasts Moral Dangerous Judgment Accounts Foundation Deny Accepted Versions Aliens Explanation Opponents Assurance Sap Moral Judgment

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

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