"In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them."

-- Larry Trask

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“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.
“We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.”
“It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.”
“It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.”
“Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.”
“A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.”

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