"The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't."

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Source : Rae Armantrout (2016). “Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015”, p.144, Wesleyan University Press

Rae Armantrout

“It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1948). “Cloth of the Tempest”
“Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.”

Source : "A Probe for Fine Structure of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.
“If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character”
“Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.”

Source : James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.7
“People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.”
“At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.”
“Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”

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