"A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade."

-- William Stanley Jevons

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“When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.”
“Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.”
“All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.”
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster
“Nothing hurts if you don't let it.”
“Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.”
“Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. Youâ€™re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.”

Source : "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.
“What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.”

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