"The more you know, the less you carry"

-- Mors Kochanski

“I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.”

Source : "Steven Holl: “If Everybody Else Quits Drawing, It’s Fine With Me”". Interview with Martin Pedersen, www.metropolismag.com. March 20, 2013.
“My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.”
“And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.”
“My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.”
“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80
“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”
“If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.”
“It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.”

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