“[E]ven a great man cannot be wise in everything.”
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10 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: Formerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element. It is like a bacillus breeding in the human soul; it destroys the resistant power against the physiological craving of the nerves, of nerves diseased. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
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