"Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration."

-- Thomas de Quincey

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“The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.”
“Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!”
“This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.”
“I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.”
“My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.”
“Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.”

Source : Luanne Rice (2005). “Summer of Roses”, p.7, Bantam
“I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.”
“Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.”

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