“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. ”
- John Moore- Copy
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“ I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine. ”
- Strom Thurmond- Copy
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“ I'm not a big Greenspan fan. I voted against him two times. I think he's one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington. ”
- Harry Reid- Copy
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“ I'm not a big Greenspan fan-Alan Greenspan fan. I voted against him the last two times. I think he's one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington. ”
- Harry Reid- Copy
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“ He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. ”
- John Moore- Copy
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“ We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. ”
- Murray Kempton- Copy
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“ When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
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“ Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. ”
- J. F. C. Fuller- Copy
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“ Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves hacking at their keyboards with no oversight, no editors, and no accountability? ”
- Mark Coffey- Copy
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“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home. ”
- Donald Dale Jackson- Copy
- 69
“ The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work… ”
- Ernesto- Copy
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“ In both painting and hacking there are some tasks that are terrifyingly ambitious, and others that are comfortably routine. It's a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall. ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
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“ That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard. ”
- Polybius- Copy
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“ Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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“ O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew — hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
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