"The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Winter Quotes #Swans Quotes #Snow Quotes

“I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.”
“I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.”
“People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.”
“Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.”
“Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.”
“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press
“Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.”

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