"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."

-- Roman Jakobson

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“Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.”

Source : "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.
“I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.”
“We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.”
“A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.”
“Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.”
“Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!”
“You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.”

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro: Ukulele Virtuoso". "The Next List" with Fredericka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.
“Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.”

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