"If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod."

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Source : Mark Kurlansky (1998). “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”, p.35, Penguin

Mark Kurlansky

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“The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.”
“I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.”
“People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.”
“Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.”

Source : Song: Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
“To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.”
“A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.”
“Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation
“I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.”

Source : "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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