"Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Death Quotes #World Quotes #Biographies Quotes

“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I donâ€™t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.”
“So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.131
“The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.”

Source : Orson Squire FOWLER (1857). “Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction ... Twenty-fifth edition, improved”, p.133
“I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.”
“The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.”
“A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Source : "Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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