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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
--
No. 19 ("To an Athlete Dying Young"), st. 2.

 

A. E. Housman

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Proprietary and secret software is the moral equivalent of runners in a fist fight.

 

Richard M. Stallman

 

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Ben Stiller

 

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Terry Pratchett

 

Bring you down, can't bring you down
Bring you down, can't hear the sound
Run through the river and head to town
Pretty little moon with it's head hung down
Chin up. Cheer up.

 

Ryan Adams

 

Why don't I watch the ocean?
My lover's gone.
No earthly ships will ever bring him home again
bring him home again...

 

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