"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast."

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Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

Nicholson Baker

#Facts Quotes #Wikipedia Quotes #Incredibles Quotes

“Love is the medicine that saves from disease.”
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
“Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodies and lyrics. Plus, for me, I can better express my musical ideas through instrumental music than vocal music, the emotional interpretation of which can easily supersede the actual musical content or aim.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We have never done anything in a cynical fake way”
“Hatred was a plant of slow growth ...”

Source : Eleanor Dark (1980). “No Barrier”
“I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.”

Source : U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.
“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.”
“A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady”

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