"Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward."

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Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.48

Charles Sturt

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“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”
“I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.”
“Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.29, Penguin
“We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.”
“It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.”
“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press
“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.”
“I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.”

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