"If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless."

-- David McCullough

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“From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.”
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
“The public can tolerate a Nazi America.”
“Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.”

Source : "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series): The Killer Robot Instability". www.imdb.com. 2009.
“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”
“The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that todayâ€™s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.”
“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”

Source : "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 125, 2013.

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