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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

~Alan Perlis

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No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Adam Adam And Eve Chops Degree Discarded Does Eve Find Got Idea Imagine Ingenuity Might New No Idea No Reason Reason Should Something Spin Story Take Think Try You

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In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

~Amy Irving

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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

~Amy Vanderbilt

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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

~Arthur Koestler

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Clothes Discarded Else Fundamental He Life Like Man Meal Only Others Own Putting Read Really Remains Someone Stranger Taking Them Thoughts Truth Understands

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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

~Barbara Ann Radnofsky

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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

~Barbara Jordan

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

~Benjamin Franklin

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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

~Brandon Boyd

Topics: About Air Around Case Created Currents Discarded Exists Five Forgotten High Known Made Millions Moving Oceans Our Plastic Pressure Slowly Soup Speak Spinning Spiral System Tons Waste Water World

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