Urlets Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it well; a significant degree of their sense of personal and group identity derives from it. All this is unexceptionable. But nationalists try to persuade their fellows that the existence of other groups and cultures somehow represents a challenge, and sometimes a threat, to what the natives of the home culture value. (From: Toward the Light of Liberty) — A.C. Grayling

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans. — Noureddine Morceli

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture. — Jacob Abbott

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many. — Jennifer Damiano

I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself. — Laurel Nakadate

Most literature on the subject of agile methodology... is written from the viewpoint of software developers and programmers, and tends to place its main emphasis on programming techniques and agile project management - testing is usually only mentioned in the guise of unit testing and its associated tools. ...However, unit tests alone are not sufficient and broader-based testing is critical to the success of agile development processes. — Tilo Linz

We forgive but not forgotten — Nelson Mandela

but is simplicity enough? — James C. Collins

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write. — John Corey Whaley

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm. — Susane Colasanti

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy