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«Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.»
Author: Linus Torvalds
(Computer engineer, Programmer)
| Keywords:
charging, embodies, embodying, excess, mph
«The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
angels, caused, excess, fallen angel, The Angels
«The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
delirium, distinctive, excess, morphology, obese, opposed, redundancy
«The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Excess,
Youth
| Keywords:
checks, excess, payable, thirty, Thirty Years
«The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
caused, charity, come into, excess, fallen angel, No Angel
«Nothing, in excess.»
Author: Greek proverb
| Keywords:
excess
«Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Labor,
Moderation
| Keywords:
appetite, excess, indulging, physicians, prevents, sharpens, temperance
«Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
excess, of his own, reader, remembrance, remembrances, singularities, singularity, strike, surprise, wording, wordings