Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
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"Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk." -- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_ | |
HP had a unique policy of allowing its engineers to take parts from stock as long as they built something. "They figured that with every design, they were getting a better engineer. It's a policy I urge all companies to adopt." -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, "Will Wozniak's class give Apple to teacher?" EE Times, June 6, 1988, pg 45 | |
"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." -- Bakunin [ed. note - I would say: The urge to destroy may sometimes be a creative urge.] | |
I have that old biological urge, I have that old irresistible surge, I'm hungry. | |
You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass. | |
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt. -- Snoopy | |
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. -- Heywood Broun | |
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Life is the urge to ecstasy. | |
Sometimes you get an almost irresistible urge to go on living. |