"Grand telegraphic discovery today â€¦ Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish â€¦ the â€œtimbreâ€ of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli."

-- Alexander Graham Bell

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“....anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing....”

Source : James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications
“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”
“True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.174
“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”
“Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.”
“Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.”
“People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.”

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