In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, by the word of Eddard of the House Stark, his Hand, I charge you to ride to the westlands with all haste, to cross the Red Fork of the Trident under the king’s flag, and there bring the king’s justice to the false knight Gregor Clegane, and to all those who shared in his crimes. I denounce him, and attaint him, and strip him of all rank and titles, of all lands and incomes and holdings, and do sentence him to death. May the gods take pity on his soul.
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Eddard Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones
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MY LORDS! Here is what I say to these two kings! Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I’ve had a bellyful of them. Why shouldn’t we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead! There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m’lords, The King in the North!
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Jon “Greatjon” Umber - A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones
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Syrio says every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.
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Arya Stark - Game of Thrones
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My sword is yours in victory and defeat, from this day until my last day.
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Theon Greyjoy - Game of Thrones
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You have no right to take the law into your own hands! … No, you behave like this, and we become just savages in the street! Where juries and executioners, they elect themselves! No, it is medieval! The rule of law, it must be held high! And if it falls, you pick it up and hold it even higher! For all society, all civilized people, will have nothing to shelter them if it is destroyed!
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Hercule Poirot - Murder on The Orient Express
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The process of technological developments is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, ‘I built a cathedral.’ Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow onto previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.
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Paul Baran (one of the inventor of packet switching techniques, based on previous works by Leonard Kleinrock and Donald Davies)
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Then there’s the matter of what comes under the term “business logic.” I find this a curious term because there are few things that are less logical than business logic. When you build an operating system you strive to keep the whole thing logical. But business rules are just given to you, and without major political effort there’s nothing you can do to change them. You have to deal with a haphazard array of strange conditions that often interact with each other in surprising ways. … A few thousand of these one-off special cases is what leads to the complex business “illogic” that makes business software so difficult.
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Martin Fowler - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief… until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed… so you’d be spared your pain.
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Henri Ducard - Batman Begins
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Ace, why didn’t you live like I told you to? What am I supposed to do?
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Monkey D. Garp - One Piece
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