"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."

-- George Jean Nathan

#Memories Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.273, Broadview Press
“Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully”
“To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.”
“We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.”
“A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.19, Addison-Wesley Professional
“Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties”
“Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.”
“It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits”

Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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