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Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed.

Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is ...

The truth is the river flows into the canyonOf Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a ...

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial ...

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

No, and [the sun] will not rise today, Master Holbytla. Nor ever again, one would think under this cloud. But time does not stand still, ...

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, ...

I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing ...

Sir Bedevere: "Tell me, what do you do with witches?" Crowd: "Burn, burn them up!" Sir Bedevere: "And what do you burn apart from witches?" ...

The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what ...

Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because ...

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from ...

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there ...

Run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.

It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering ...

I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit ...

Burnside was in the best position on the field, could have moved at any time toward a weak defense, a defense that was weaker still

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is ...

It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have ...

I did learn that standing by your principles is always the right call, even when dealing with people in positions of power.

The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it ...

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor ...

So you're reinstating the law of the jungle?" asks Mo."You were bringing it back, every time you filled your tank.

I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, ...

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.

I flipped open my phone and sent Daniel a text: I love you.As I crawled into bed, my phone beeped with a message back from ...

One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a ...

Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.[Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu ...

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.

When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

But let's face it: society doesn't really care who it blames, as long as it blames someone

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that ...

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, ...

A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, ...

President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It ...

There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells ...

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

What do you want from me? I keep telling you I don't care about this secret. I'm telling you I want you. I don't know ...

Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you ...

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a ...

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Intense stereotypies - stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing - almost never occur in the wild,

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get ...

Anxiety is who people want you to be. Calm is who you are.

If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our ...

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in ...

I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier.

A good analogy to understand the difference between bandwidth and speed is the following example: a fast sports-car can get one bag of coffee beans ...

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the ...

We are in a restaurant, smilling, leaning in over a half-eaten meal, our faces flushed with love and thr bite of the sun.

Your stamina is impressive," he commented. There was a beat of silence and Sin said with a scoff, "I could say something, but I'll refrain.

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if ...

Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in ...

Liveliness in a teacher does not mean that students will be lively.

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president ...

People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are ... all bought and paid for.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I ...

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!""Can't we do anything about it?""No!""Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said ...

LUKE Friends, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears. Wish not we had a single fighter more, If we are mark'd to die, we are enough ...

The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - ...

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire ...

Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.

People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, ...

I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in ...

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life

Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they ...

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, ...

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments ...

People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice ...

So I leave you here and let those cold euphoric drops of water drip and seep into your skull.

We begin to lie to ourselves about our situation, and start feeling trapped--blaming society usually commences. But people seldomly realize that we are society, therefore ...

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We ...

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, ...

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has ...

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here ...

The panic that had filled him was subsiding, perhaps having burned itself out.