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«The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.»
Author: Edsger Dijkstra (Scientist) | Keywords: COBOL, criminal, crippled, cripples, offense, regarded
«The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.»
Author: Stanley Baldwin (Politician, Prime Minister) | Keywords: offense, Save the Children
«Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.»
Author: Branch Rickey | Keywords: defensively, offense
«We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: big, noble, offense, offenses
«The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed»
Author: Ayn Rand (Novelist, Writer) | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: committed, offense, offenses, prevent, punish, The Law
«To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: apologize, offense
«There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.»
Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: conventions, offense, polite
«What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: cut down, offense
«She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offense: Sex to the last»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: forgave, offense
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Civilization, Country | Keywords: courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian
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