"I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold."

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Paul Verlaine

#Purple Quotes #Gold Quotes

“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
“The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.”
“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
“The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet â€“ they are answers to basic questions about the relationship each citizen has to the government and about the extent to which we trust one another with the full range of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution.”

Source : Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business
“The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.”
“There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.”

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