"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."

-- Laurence J. Peter

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“I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.”
“Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means”

Source : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”
“If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.”
“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”
“Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally , every day, very faithfully.”
“I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.”

Source : "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.
“No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.”

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