Life’s heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.
When writing these tests it’s obvious and clear where “duplication” lies and how “common” pieces can be pulled into helper methods. Unfortunately, each time we extract a method we risk complicating our tiny universes. The right abstractions can reduce complexity; however, it’s often unclear which abstraction within a test will provide the most value to the team.
You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.
Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.
A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.
Am I really wonderful?” asked the Scarecrow. “You are unusual,” replied Glinda.
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?
Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.
The Dalai Lama leaned forward. “Ikkyu taught us that it is possible to live at least part of our lives in a timeless, spaceless world where there is no birth and death, no coming and going,” he said softly. “A place where there is no separation in time, no distance in space, no barrier barring us from the ones we love, no glass wall between experience and our hearts.
I was under the impression that I am teaching this lesson, not you. And I am telling you all to turn to page 394.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
When money talks, Nobody checks the grammar.
God’s love for us is proclaimed by each sunrise.
There are two separate types of unsavory Trump appointee. Both belong to the same genus, the Apologist, defined by their shared willingness to excuse the inexcusable. But each is its own species with distinctive characteristics. The first species is the Sycophant. The second is the Silent Abettor. The intermingling motives – power, tribalism, and fear – are what keep both species nodding in agreement.
This is the Internet, the land of Chaos, Hatred, Suffering and Cats.
With a stillness, you’ll remain intact in my mind. Never mined. Never mine.
Americans must decide which way we’ll walk. If we want to prevail against aggressors, we must be ready for constant competition. We must be unhesitant in choosing between right and wrong. We must be very clear – our leaders must be very clear – about who is a friend and who is a foe. On that account, President Trump has failed us.
Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.
To admire Satan, then, is to give one’s vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.
Removing my identity from the equation deprives him of an opportunity to create a distraction. What will he do when there is no person to attack, only an idea?