"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."

-- Janis Joplin

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“The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.”
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.”
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
“The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.”
“This century is going to be a very dangerous century.”
“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?”

Source : Song: Poetic Justice, 2012
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”

Source : Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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