I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.
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Usenet article <199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org> (1997)Larry Wall
I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in which they may be regarded as good. I wish to assert with respect to them two propositions.
First, that in the present day even those who use those words most rationally — that is to say, as the names of elements of social life which, like others, have their advantages and disadvantages according to time, place, and circumstance — have a great disposition to exaggerate their advantages and to deny the existence, or at any rate to underrate the importance, of their disadvantages.
Next, that whatever signification be attached to them, these words are ill-adapted to be the creed of a religion, that the things which they denote are not ends in themselves, and that when used collectively the words do not typify, however vaguely, any state of society which a reasonable man ought to regard with enthusiasm or self-devotion.James Fitzjames Stephen
Separate wealth from value. All living things have value. We impart this value upon lifeless things to give them worth not vice versa.
Lupe Fiasco
Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.
Jan Theuninck
...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
Carl von Clausewitz
Size is a double-edged sword with great advantages and disadvantages..
Kenneth Griffin
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