"Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field."

-- John J. Geddes

#Dark Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Orange Quotes

“...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.”

Source : Song: We Can Work It Out
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”

Source : Speech at Kettering, 3 July 1938, in The Times 4 July 1938
“Never doubt, never look back. That's how I live my life.”
“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”
“I think the time has changed. Because of 9/11, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.”
“I saw him...at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.”
“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.”

Source : Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub
“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in â€œcreative leaps,â€ no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.”

Source : "Reasons to Believe". Personal blog post, www.scottaaronson.com. September 04, 2006.

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