"Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow."

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Source : Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

Robert Bridges

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“Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.”
“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

Source : John Betjeman, “Business Girls”
“Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.”
“Are you open for this possibility of the energy source of breathing to go through you or are you collapsing? Are you open to this coming and going of air and the possibility-wea ther we sit, or stand, or lie-to allow this exchange of air through us?”
“A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.”
“The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.”

Source : Source: www.wikimetal.com.br
“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”

Source : "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.
“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone elseâ€™s house.”

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