"From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic)."

-- Erik Naggum

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“Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.”
“Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasnâ€™t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamsterâ€™s cage was clean, Iâ€™d be happy to oblige.”
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.”

Source : Source: highlighthollywood.com
“O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!”

Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”
“Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.”

Source : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.”
“Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34
“I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.”

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