"A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns."

-- Henry Adams

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“An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.”
“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”

Source : Douglas Huebler, Dittmar Memorial Gallery (1980). “Douglas Huebler, 10 +: exhibition , April 2-May 2, 1980, Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston Illinois”
“I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.”
“Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons”
“As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.11
“Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.”
“I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.”
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins”

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