"Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!"

-- Pierre-Jean de Beranger

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“... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.”
“It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.”
“Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.”

Source : "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
“There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (Earl of) (1853). “The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton. Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself ...”, p.378
“The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.”
“The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”

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