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They were called rebels, but those “rebels” were the true Hallandren royal family. Mortal men though they might be, their bloodline was a challenge to the Court of Gods. Any good monarch knew that the first thing you did to stabilize your throne was execute anyone who had a better claim to it than you did. After that, it was usually a good idea to execute everyone who thought they might have claim.
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart,
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Instead of being dependent upon the implementation details of the TokyoStock-Exchange class, our Portfolio class is now dependent upon the StockExchange interface. The StockExchange interface represents the abstract concept of asking for the current price of a symbol. This abstraction isolates all of the specific details of obtaining such a price, including from where that price is obtained.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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