"You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?"

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can't seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
“I love driving in the city at night.”
“Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.”
“Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.”

Source : "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2012.
“I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.”
“Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.”
“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.”

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