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“Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.”
Source : "Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinite Obsession’ Heads To Brazil" By Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.
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“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
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“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions”
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“The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.”
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“When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.”
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“To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.”
Source : Roy Prentice Basler (1973). “A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
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“And I took a walk and I just went to prayer and I said Lord, what would you have me do in the Minnesota state senate? And just through prayer I knew that I was to introduce the marriage amendment in Minnesota.”
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“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”
Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux