"If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror."

-- Erik Naggum

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“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
“The ocean moans over dead men's bones.”
“Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.”
“If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet
“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.”
“Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.”
“Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.”

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