"It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below."

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Source : Francis Parkman (1991). “The Oregon Trail ; The Conspiracy of Pontiac”, p.40, Library of America

Francis Parkman

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“Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?”
“It's nice when people approach you to help.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”
“The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence”

Source : Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.38, MIT Press
“No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.”
“The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.”
“I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.”

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