"The most reliable components are the ones you leave out."

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Source : "Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions". Book edited by Stuart Borlase, 2012.

Gordon Bell

“I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2011). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.158, Coffee House Press
“My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.”
“Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.”
“At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.”
“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”

Source : Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).
“"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the oÂne religion of the future.'"”
“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

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