"When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths."

-- Philibert Joseph Roux

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“There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.13
“When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right back into the biggest part of this whole equation, consumption. This drags GDP down as well.”
“The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.”
“How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.”
“Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.”
“There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.”
“When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.”
“We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history”

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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