Szentirmai Judit Quotes & Sayings

During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him. — Rajneesh

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed. — Mark Twain

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more. — Catherynne M Valente

Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy. — Gordy Slack

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't. — George Jones

The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists. It is not the contact with an essentially foreign population that corrupts the inhabitants of the great foreign resorts. It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population. — Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

I wake with a start.
Today, I win her back. — E.L. James

Immutable objects are simple. They can only be in one state, which is carefully controlled by the constructor. One of the most difficult elements of program design is reasoning about the possible states of complex objects. Reasoning about the state of immutable objects, on the other hand, is trivial.

Immutable objects are also safer. Passing a mutable object to untrusted code, or otherwise publishing it where untrusted code could find it, is dangerous - the untrusted code might modify its state, or, worse, retain a reference to it and modify its state later from another thread. On the other hand, immutable objects cannot be subverted in this manner by malicious or buggy code, so they are safe to share and publish freely without the need to make defensive copies. — Brian Goetz

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung! — Stonewall Jackson

They don't know I'm staring, what does it matter if I keep on doing it? — Zach Braff

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. — Zac Efron

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying." — Robert Kiyosaki