"To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses."

-- Oswald Spengler

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“The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.”

Source : "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
“Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.51
“When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.”
“Your self is sacred; be true to it.”
“The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.”
“There is energy and power in a crisis.”
“I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.”

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