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“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
It is what it is, I tend not to do that.
Interview with British GQ (September 2013) http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/one-direction-gq-covers-interview
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2000-08-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132,
2000s, 2000-04
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.”
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2; as translated by James Strachey, p.63