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  • Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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    No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

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  • Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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    I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

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  • Author Ivan Turgenev
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    I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

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  • Author Ivan Turgenev
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    The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

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  • Author Jeffrey Toobin
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    Benedict showed Skakel lied about facts and placed himself in places that were incriminating ... I think that's what turned the tide.

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  • Author Joe Torre
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    The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

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  • Author Ken Thompson
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    In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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  • Author Linus Torvalds
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    C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

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