"All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature."

-- Carl Linnaeus

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“I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.”
“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in Ð° room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”
“Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.”

Source : Janet Frame (1963). “The reservoir: stories and sketches”
“The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.”
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
“Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.”
“Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.”
“You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.”

Source : "Amy Ryan Exclusive Interview WIN WIN; Also Talks IN TREATMENT and THE OFFICE". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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