"Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth."

-- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

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“Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.”
“Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.”
“I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”
“We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.”

Source : "Robots will manage your network" by Sandra Gittlen, www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.
“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”
“For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'”
“I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

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