"Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing."

-- Austin Kleon

“Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.”
“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
“I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.”
“Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.”
“To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.”
“I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.”

Source : "The 50-50 argument". judithcurry.com. August 24, 2014.
“There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?”
“My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.”

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