"An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel."

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Source : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”

Elinor Wylie

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“I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?”
“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”
“Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.”
“It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.39, Verso
“I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.”
“In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades”
“I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

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