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“I think America, really, is over.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a problem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the border, there will be trouble. If we forget about the river, there will be now way out. There is already a sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can never erase.”
Source : Larry Levis (1998). “The Afterlife: Poems”, Carnegie Mellon
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“Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.”
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“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
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“Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.”
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“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.”
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“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”
Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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“I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.”