"I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up."

-- Bear Grylls

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“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”
“Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.”
“The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.”
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.16, Applewood Books
“Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?”
“Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.”

Source : "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.
“Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of that determination fades in time. The moment you feel that is when you should make a fresh determination. Tell yourself, â€œOK! I will start again from now!â€ If you fall down seven times, get up an eighth. Donâ€™t give up when you feel discouraged-jus t pick yourself up and renew your determination each time.”
“Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren beteiligen sich an der Strukturierung der generierten Information, schaffen dabei unvorhersehbar Neues und erweisen sich dadurch als die zweite schöpferische Instanz neben dem Programmierer . . .”

Source : Georg Nees (1969). “Generative Computergraphik”

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