"The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity."

-- Lewis Mumford

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“Sarcasm was a weapon for children.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2012). “Such a Rush”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
“The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.”

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.”
“You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'”
“One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso
“I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.”
“I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.221, Essential Library
“I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.”

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