"It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold."

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Source : Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

Sigurd F. Olson

#Summer Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Nothing is promised in life except death.”
“With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.”

Source : "Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2013.
“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”
“I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.”
“Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.”

Source : "12 Sick Burns From People Who Didn’t Get The Jane Austen Hype" by Sara Boboltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015.
“I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (1993). “The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.”

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