"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.”

Source : Tom Vilsack's at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.”
“I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”
“I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.”
“No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.”

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