"Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers."

-- Jerome Wiesner

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“No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.”

Source : "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.
“We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.”
“I'm at a really good spot in my career, to the point where I feel like I could explode at any moment. If I keep progressing with my game at this rate, I think I'll be a big factor”
“A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.”

Source : "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.
“Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.”
“The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.”

Source : Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins
“You only stop learning when you quit.”
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”

Source : Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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