"My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave."

-- Isadora Duncan

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“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.”
“...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.”

Source : Harold Hotelling (2012). “The Collected Economics Articles of Harold Hotelling”, p.52, Springer Science & Business Media
“The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people.”
“Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.”
“I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. Iâ€™m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.”
“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”
“You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You donâ€™t know your own worth.”
“In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.”

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