"If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else."

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Helen Gurley Brown

“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.”
“Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.”

Source : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
“Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.”
“Innovation without insight is failure.”
“A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.”
“It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.”
“The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.”
“Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.”

Source : Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2953, Madison & Adams

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