Quotes of Regeneration - somelinesforyou

“ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ”

- Professor Edsger Dijkstra

“ The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race. ”

- Giuseppe Mazzini
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