"I was here on earth because I chose to be."

-- John Cheever

“When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.”
“My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.”
“The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.”

Source : Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”
“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”
“Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.
“The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.”

Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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