Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel J. Barrett
- 100 WPM considered worthy for Linux professionals
All the advice in this book will serve you better if you can type quickly. No matter how knowledgeable you are, if you type 40 words per minute and your equally knowledgeable friend types 120, they're set up to work three times as fast as you. Search the web for "typing speed test" to measure your speed, then search for "typing tutor" and build a lifelong skill. Try to reach 100 words per minute. It's worth the effort.
Merican Cinema
- Movie Skat of Mind
Surrender Dorothy! No, I am your father. You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? Play it, Sam. I'll be back. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum. Made it, Ma! Top of the World!
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
- Think your way to happiness
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
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- Thumb hurdles
Broke my right thumb once I hit 60 wpm. So, that's good. Nothing to do with learning to type as fast as a middle schooler. Another hurdle to work to get over. Hurdles are valuable. We don't live in Flatland.
Hannah Arendt (closely paraphrased)
- Even in the darkest of times
Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination might well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some in their lives and their works kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over their lives.
Liz Bowie
- Librarians Share Their Best Book Repair Tips
When fixing a spine, use glue and a knitting needle. The knitting needle will easily slide all the way from end to end of the book. It helps to spread the glue carefully. Use a cotton ball to clean up any excess. Use a large square of scrap wood or heavy books to hold it tight until dry.
WikiHow
- How to Repair a Book's Binding
Is your favorite book falling apart or shedding pages or its cover? It's easier than you think to repair your book! Using a book or binding glue can help you reattach pages that have come loose from the book.
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- The touch of tao typing
The touch of tao typing is to quiet the mind and let the words pass unfiltered, but buffered ahead, to the fingers, thoughtlessly. Practice until there is no consciousness in movement, just steady flow.
William Tecumseh Sherman
- General Sherman on General Grant
I am damned smarter than Grant. I know more about history, strategy, and tactics than he does. I'll tell you where he beats me though and where he beats the world. He doesn't give a damn about what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell.
Donald Trump
- Dorie Miller, fighting sailor
In one remarkable act of bravery Dorie Miller, a steward aboard the USS West Virginia, manned a machine gun and successfully shot down multiple Japanese aircraft despite not having been trained to use the weapon.
Nancy Pelosi
- Channeling the Founders
When our Founders wrote the Constitution, they suspected we might one day have a rogue president. I doubt they thought we would have a rogue president and a rogue leader of the Senate at the same time.
Joe Wilson
- Joe Wilson: Drinking tea poolside in Niger while asking for yellow cake
I spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people: current government officials, former government officials, people associated with the country's uranium business. It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.
Jada Yuan, Washington Post
- Valeria Plame Remaking Herself
Valerie Plame angled her face toward the sun. As someone who spent so much of her life in shadows, concealing her identity as an undercover operative for the CIA, she seemed to have gotten used to the golden light of New Mexico, energized by it, even.
Collins Publishers
- Sally and Dick have fun
Sally said, "I want to go up. I want to go up in it. I want to go up, up, up. I want to go up and away." "Look, Sally," said Dick. "Here is Father in a boat."
Marianne Williamson
- To heal the world, learn forgiveness
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
